Perhaps Australia's military future is in worse shape than we thought:
"Young Australians are becoming too drugged and too fat to join the military.
"Overuse of recreational drugs - particularly marijuana - among 15-year-olds and junk food-related obesity are expected to worsen over the next decade, according to an Australian Defence Force (ADF) internal recruiting plan for the next five years, it was reported today.
"'The high incidence of non-medical drug use among young people (recent studies suggesting up to 50 per cent of 15-year-olds smoke marijuana at least once a month) severely limits the pool of recruitable candidates,' the recruiting report says."
Less able soldiers to fight imperial wars? Sounds ideal to me. How about a plan to reduce excessive recreational drinking, surely a far worse problem than smoking pot?
"Young Australians are becoming too drugged and too fat to join the military.
"Overuse of recreational drugs - particularly marijuana - among 15-year-olds and junk food-related obesity are expected to worsen over the next decade, according to an Australian Defence Force (ADF) internal recruiting plan for the next five years, it was reported today.
"'The high incidence of non-medical drug use among young people (recent studies suggesting up to 50 per cent of 15-year-olds smoke marijuana at least once a month) severely limits the pool of recruitable candidates,' the recruiting report says."
Less able soldiers to fight imperial wars? Sounds ideal to me. How about a plan to reduce excessive recreational drinking, surely a far worse problem than smoking pot?
2 Comments:
The connection between stoning and recuitment is largely a beatup of the Age's imaginattion.
What every good recuitment officer knows (be he fascist or an ALP communist) is that as employment becomes more "full" more people go for increasingly available higher paid jobs (eg computing and accountancy) and less of the "smart, eligible" prospects condescent to join the grubby military.
Also unpopular wars (with the serious side effect of death) may turn off the creme de la creme of recuiting prospects.
True enough. The Iraq war has caused a massive drop in recruitment in the US and UK, and I presume here too. So much for liberation being popular with the kiddies!
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