Army faces "tiktok mutiny"? How are these troops still in the service?

[Aus_Schwaben]

Army faces 'TikTok mutiny' as Gen Z recruits whine about FITNESS TESTS

The Army is facing a TikTok mutiny as Gen Z recruits are taking to social media to whine about low pay, 'sh***y' food and fitness tests.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Just when you think things could not get any worse.

 

[Bozz10mm]

We complained about the same things in the 60s and 70s. Just didn't have social media to do it with. Things in those areas improved after we implemented the all volunteer army seems like. Actually the food was never that bad IMO. The pay? Well don't expect to get rich diggin' a ditch. But you won't starve to death either.

 

[Bozz10mm]

Among the major criticisms, the young soldiers complain about having to remain below a certain weight, harsh treatment from their superiors and having to perform menial tasks instead of engaging enemies on the battlefield.

You're a soldier! Shut up and soldier!

 

[popsgarland]

These whinny butt holes would never had made it when I was in the army 67 - 69.

In basic, one guy didn't like showering, well, after he was helped with a steel brush
he showered in the morning and at night. All some people need is a little motivating.

The fat heavy set guys got little to eat and the skinny ones got double helpings.

We were told that you didn't have to like it, you just had to do it.

 

[Bozz10mm]

In basic, one guy didn't like showering, well, after he was helped with a steel brush
he showered in the morning and at night. All some people need is a little motivating.

I think they make sure there is at least one of those in every basic training platoon. In addition to not showering, the guy would rinse out his fatigues in the latrine sink and hang them in his wall locker to dry. He was tough to march behind. He also had a fetish for tooth brushes.

Also in basic, we had no hot water for showering or shaving. Not that it ran out, there just wasn't any. Plenty of hot water when I got to jump school, but if you were at the end of the chow line there wasn't much food left.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

What did they expect when they signed up?

 

[MountainGirl]

What did they expect when they signed up?

Condos, ala Private Benjamin.

 

[Tnhawk]

We complained about the same things in the 60s and 70s. Just didn't have social media to do it with. Things in those areas improved after we implemented the all volunteer army seems like. Actually the food was never that bad IMO. The pay? Well don't expect to get rich diggin' a ditch. But you won't starve to death either.

If a soldier ain't bitching about something, something is wrong. The pay and food have always been on the lists of soldier whining and always will. However, how and to whom they complain, could cause them more serious problems.

 

[Johnny Diamond]

Among the major criticisms, the young soldiers complain about having to remain below a certain weight, harsh treatment from their superiors and having to perform menial tasks instead of engaging enemies on the battlefield.

You're a soldier! Shut up and soldier!

Ain't the army I knew!

Sent from my SM-G973U using Tapatalk

 

[Aus_Schwaben]

We complained about the same things in the 60s and 70s. Just didn't have social media to do it with. Things in those areas improved after we implemented the all volunteer army seems like. Actually the food was never that bad IMO. The pay? Well don't expect to get rich diggin' a ditch. But you won't starve to death either.

True. It goes back millennia but when you go public the brass reacts differently. In '82, there was a NATO conference in Colorado Springs. Some folks protested including an Army SPC. He was on camera in uniform with a sign about the U.S. out of NATO. The brass - either MG Hudachek or BG Powell - had him discharged.

 

[Havok1]

Service members have always said this stuff, and the reason people have always had these complaints is because a lot of it is accurate. They just got more attention because of the platform they used to say it.

 

[Cool 'Horn Luke]

Unbelievable, I don't how much more softening of the recruitment process/appeasement to the snowflakes during training our military readiness can handle. Towards the end of my service, late '90s, I was seeing the start of this downward slide. I can only imagine how bad it is now. If this is where we're at now, return to the higher standards, maintain a smaller core of professional soldiers/sailors/airmen, and when the shit hits the fan, these worthless snowflakes can either sink or swim, but they WILL be in uniform when drafted.

BTW, anyone else notice the common denominator of those posting to the ChiComm app?

 

[Nicholst55]

I would expect those soon-to-be former soldiers will shortly be stomped on by the Army - if they haven't been already. These days, NCOs are responsible for monitoring their soldiers' social media accounts and taking action when something similar happens. Then they'll be like the cornholing senate staffer who was just fired - they'll be "victims," threatening lawsuits.

 

[General Zod]

What did they expect when they signed up?

What they saw in the "Call Of Duty" video games...

 

[alternative]

If you look at the big brass you wonder if the fat boy program only applies to the enlisted. Did basic in early 70's and complaints are the same.

 

[zackmars]

I guess close to a decade of recruitment ads like this:



Had some kind of an effect. Huh.

 

[jrbfishn]

Pop was Top Sgt.. when I was in High School I workedcKP at several of the mess halls on FtbHood. The food was better in the worst one than you got at any place off post. One of the ones I worked the most had 2 lines, 1 for regular meals and 1 for fast food. Fast food line even had Pinto beans w/ham hocks most meals. Regular food line, it was not uncommon to have T-bones or Prime Rib. 4 star bakers for deserts. Mess Sgt had 2 rules.
1- You get coffee from the oldest coffee urn, not the freshest. He would run you out if he caught you.
2- take as much as you want, but not more than you could eat.

Most of the mess halls on post are better than the 1970s when I worked out there.
Most of the ones that complain about not seeing combat,,,well, they don't need to. Most of them would not do as well as they think they would. Always been that way, always will.
And soldiers gripe. Always have. It's what they do best anyway. That is never going to change.

Sent from my SM-S906U using Tapatalk

 

[Moonpie]

Nothing will happen to them.

 

[dsgrey]

My daughter-in-law joined the army about 15 years ago, before she was married to my son. She never made it through boot camp. Whined and was "sick" the entire time so she got kicked out of boot camp after signing paperwork stating she was never in the service.

 

[Nicholst55]

I ate at the Dining Facility on the post where I worked in Korea a few times. The food was actually quite good - for DFAC food. It wasn't up to even a 3-star restaurant, but there was a wide variety, and plenty of food was available. Even back when I was in (73-93), a lot of young soldiers would rather spend their limited pay on fast food than eat at the DFAC. I never did understand that.