Military Acquisition

America’s Quiet Military Draft Crisis: The Test That Won’t Lie

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For a century, the Department of Defense (now DoW) has asked a brutally simple question: can you read, can you reason, can you do basic math, can you learn a job without turning equipment into modern art? This isn’t about genius. It’s about baseline competence—the kind that keeps helicopters in the sky and generators from becoming bonfires.

Sig P320: How the Army Ended Up Issuing Soldiers a Pistol That Shoots You First

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Picture this: a Pentagon conference room full of brass so weighed down with medals they can barely sit upright. A stack of PowerPoints taller than the Washington Monument. Coffee so bad it makes MRE sludge taste gourmet. The mission? Pick America’s next service pistol. The result? They chose a pistol that might decide to shoot you before you even draw it.