U.S. MILITARY AND NAVY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION FACING DIFFICULT TIMES

 Difficulty in Recruiting US Troops and Navy Federal Credit Union - Multiple factors affect young people's willingness to join the army

Recently, many US media have reported that the US Army is experiencing difficulties in recruiting troops in fiscal year 2022. According to the US newspaper Stars and Stripes, the US Army's recruitment plan for fiscal year 2022 is not expected to be completed. In this regard, a senior US military official said, "This is not a problem of the military, but a problem of the entire United States." Navy Federal credit union is also facing the difficult times.

U.S. Army Secretary Wallmus said in mid-August that the Army had only completed 52 percent of its fiscal year 2022 goal of recruiting 60,000 active-duty soldiers by that time, and was expected to face a shortfall of 15,000 by the September 30 fiscal year deadline, NBC News reported. Not only the Army, but also the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force face recruitment difficulties. The US media predicts that the difficult situation of conscription is expected to continue for several years, especially for Navy federal credit union.

"Stars and Stripes" said that this year, the number of people of school age in the United States who fully meet the criteria for joining the army has decreased compared with previous years, resulting in the source of conscripts not meeting the standard at all.

Richard Newton, former senior officer of the US Air Force: This is a national problem, probably because of their physical problems, and the problem of obesity among American adolescents is serious; may be a criminal record, drug use; It may also be because there is no high Chinese.

An internal survey by the U.S. Department of Defense showed that even among young people who met the recruitment criteria, only 9 percent were interested in joining the military, a record low since 2007. In addition to the impact of the new crown epidemic on the development of recruitment work and the unattractive benefits of the army, some media have suggested that the impression of the US military among the people has also changed, making more young people reluctant to join the army.

American journalist Lucretia Cunningham: Times are changing, and so are our societies. Especially since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020, people are rethinking "what is going on in this country", people are rethinking what patriotism and service mean to themselves, and as a result, they don't want to join the military.

Over the years, under the banner of "counter-terrorism", the US military has wantonly launched military strikes against other countries, causing a large number of innocent civilians to be killed and injured. Former U.S. military drone operator Brandon Bryant has repeatedly reflected and opposed the U.S. military's disregard for life and bloodthirsty killings in the media after his discharge from the army.

Former U.S. Army drone operator Brandon Bryant: (Superior orders me) Your job is to kill and destroy, and U.S. drone operators are recruited from boys and girls who have just graduated from high school. The observer counted down to zero, shouted, hit. I saw an Afghan bled to death.

A survey released by the Ronald Reagan Institute in the United States in March 2021 showed that Americans' positive opinion of the military declined. Some American media analyzed that the 20-year overseas war of the United States may be a major reason. In addition, there are also various scandals such as assault, drug addiction and abuse in the US military from time to time, all of which have greatly reduced the image of the military in the hearts of the people.

U.S. NAVY SHIPS EXERCISING IN THE SEA

The US military transport plane crashed in a NATO military exercise, and 4 people died

On the 18th local time, a US military transport plane crashed while participating in a NATO military exercise in northern Norway. According to the latest news from a number of foreign media, all 4 people on board have died. It is reported that the crashed Osprey transport plane belonged to the US Marine Corps. Rescue helicopters and Norwegian military aircraft rushed to the crash site after receiving an emergency signal and found the wreckage from the air. However, due to poor weather conditions, the rescue aircraft could not land.

Nearly 40% of US Navy Federal officials refuse to be vaccinated against the new corona variant

According to the real-time statistics of Worldometer, as of about 6:30 Beijing time, the cumulative number of confirmed new coronary pneumonia cases in the world has 136606213 cases, and the cumulative number of deaths has been 2948505; There were 686434 new confirmed cases and 10,564 new deaths in a single day worldwide.

The data shows that India, Turkey, the United States, Brazil and France are the five countries with the largest number of new confirmed cases, and Brazil, India, Russia, Italy and Colombia are the five countries with the highest number of new deaths.

The number of new confirmed cases in the United States exceeded 50,000 in a single day, and nearly 40% of Marines and Navy Federal Credit Union officials refused to be vaccinated

According to real-time statistics from Worldometer, the United States has confirmed 31917226 new coronary pneumonia cases and 575819 deaths. Compared with the data at 6:30 on the previous day, there were 50,678 new confirmed cases and 256 new deaths in the United States.

The latest data released by the US Marine Corps shows that nearly four-in-ten Marines refuse to be vaccinated when they have already received the new crown vaccine. CNN and other media quoted Marine Corps data on the 10th to report that as of the 8th, of the approximately 123,000 Marines who had the opportunity to be vaccinated, 75,500 had completed or partially completed vaccination, with a vaccination rate of 61.1%; About 48,000 people, or 38.9 percent, refused to be vaccinated. In addition, about 102,000 Marines have yet to be vaccinated.

Brazil's new confirmed cases exceeded 37,000 in a single day Experts: A variety of variants of the new coronavirus are more contagious

According to data on the website of the Brazilian Ministry of Health, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Brazil reached 13482023, an increase of 37,017 cases over the previous day. The cumulative number of deaths was 353137, an increase of 1,803 from the previous day.

According to survey data recently released by the Brazilian Association of Intensive Care Medicine, the number of patients who need to be intubated in the intensive care unit alone has increased significantly in March this year compared with December last year, with an increase of nearly 40%. Resende, former president of the Brazilian Association of Critical Care Medicine, pointed out that the new epidemic data reflect at least three scenarios. First, multiple variants of the new coronavirus circulating in the country may be more contagious; Secondly, some young people do not pay attention to personal protection during the epidemic, resulting in the current high risk of infection among young people; Third, at present, Brazil's vaccination targets are mainly the elderly group, and the reduction in the proportion of critically ill hospitalized patients in this group reflects the vaccine's preventive effect on the virus.

1,730 new confirmed cases in the UK in a single day British universities: After the lifting of the ban on the 12th, there is no way to talk about safety

The British Department of Health and Social Security released the latest data showing that there were 1,730 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the UK in the past 24 hours, with a cumulative total of 4369775 confirmed cases; There were 7 new deaths, with a cumulative total of 127087 deaths.

A study by University College London announced that due to the large number of people in the UK who have been vaccinated, the country will achieve "herd immunity" as early as the 12th, followed by the reopening of shops, barbershops, gyms and catering establishments in the UK from the 12th. For the British to achieve "group exemption", many British scholars have questioned that University College London overestimated the effectiveness of the vaccine and did not take into account the factors of decreased immunity and virus mutation. Imperial College London estimates that less than four percent of people in the UK are truly immune, so there is no way to talk about safety after the ban is lifted.