The failed deal comes after the Army National Guard blew $88 million on a deal with NASCAR, that also yielded 20 recruits, according to USA Today.
I can’t help but feel 88 million could possibly be used for other personnel retention efforts, which might help the fact that every veteran, positive or negative about the US, will tell you the same goddamn thing - don’t join, because the military doesn’t give a fuck about your wellbeing.
They could have had over 4x the effectiveness by simply offering 88 18-yearolds $1 million dollars each to enlist.
It was $88M for 0 recruits, per that USA Today article:
The Guard received 24,800 recruiting prospects from the program in 2012, documents show. In those cases, potential recruits indicated the NASCAR affiliation prompted them to seek more information about joining. Of that group, only 20 met the Guard’s qualifications for entry into the service, and not one of them joined.
The $88M was National Guard spending on nascar from 2011-13. The 20 recruits who made the right choice were just in 2012, but the military.com article that daily beast is reporting on says ‘potentially no recruits’ when describing the whole nascar deal.
The craziest part to me is the 25k prospects yielding 20 qualified candidates. 99.92% were unfit for service.
2012, butThe craziest part to me is the 25k prospects yielding 20 qualified candidates. 99.92% were unfit for service.
Well they did advertise at NASCAR…
No sir, for the 215th time you cannot already have a pacemaker. Next!
99.92% were unfit for service.
It’s that strict conservative diet of pork cracklin’s, copenhagen and budweiser.
I wonder what the reasons were. Probably some had allergies or some minor shit like that. With the amount of waivers these days, there’s probably only 20 people in the military who are actually fit for service
Yeah, seriously. Word of mouth is stronger than advertising, and its very negative for the military
Yes, but it is recruits that they’re desperate for.
Why would anyone with enough common sense to not drown sitting on a toilet want to be used, thrown away, and forgotten by the USMIC, If they survive at all.
And let’s not forget about a huge rape problem that we have in our military here in America. Yeah that’s just what I would want my daughter to join and the kind of people I want my son to be friends with.
The fact the Coast Guard spent four million dollars per recruit on a NASCAR campaign is unreal. Yet after they’ve served they’ll be lucky to get a free massage.
It was National Guard not Coast Guard, Coast Guard doesn’t have that kind of budget. Never had, never will.
I think I read somewhere that the number of active duty Coast Guard is less than the number of New York City police officers.
Coast Guard has something like 50k active, reserve and civilian workforce and NYPD is like 55k
You know the Army is in trouble when they offer free college tuition these days and people still aren’t interested.
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Government is known not to support their troops after they return. Parents are telling their kids to not join and now it’s finally being seen in enrollment numbers.