Australian Defence Force ‘incredibly bad’ at recruitment: Greg Sheridan
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan says the government’s policy allowing international soldiers to join the ADF is a “good initiative”.
The federal government is changing the rules to allow international soldiers to join the Australian Defence Force.
“Why not get them all tomorrow - we desperately need soldiers,” Mr Sheridan said.
“The underlying truth here is that defence has been incredibly bad at recruiting people to the Australia Defence Force.”
So you charge soldiers with murder for shooting the enemy, take medals from those who served then scratch your empty head as why no one puts their hand up ? Really ? 😂😂😂😂
Well said.
Hear hear
Design buddy, design
The current CDF was part of the leadership overseas at the time of the so called "war crimes". The excuse the leadership used was " the gap between leadership and troops on the ground was too large, so we had no idea what was going on on the ground". No one wants to serve under a dog c### like that, his throwing people under the bus his driving.
Don't forget they also........
Allowed our education system to go all out indoctrination in identy politics.
Devided the very population they expect to recruit from.
Destroyed any patriotism they could get their grubby mitts on.
No one wants to put their lives on the line for ungrateful, corrupt pollititions and their woke elite minions.
Over the last god knows how many years all the government has done is sow hate, distrust, lied to those that serve today.
To those who could serve in the years to come from a population that used to be resilient and persevering.
No the problem is we don't want to fight for a country with a government looking after immigrants and not us, let the immigrants fight
Correct…Immigrants often do the heavy lifting where locals can’t be bothered…my stepdad was a soldier in FDF🇫🇮, the UN 🇺🇳 and ADF🇦🇺. One guy who served here was ex-SS, pretty desperate for recruits.🤣
Tan, Ali, Chen, Mustafa and Seamus all agree!
@@GLEN-ys7qt Yeah…because Wazza, Dicko, Smitho and Faghag prefer to suck on Centrelink.🕺
100% & it’s far deeper then that .
But your right over the target.
@@concernedaussie1330 Would you agree to conscription?
Treat the service personnel better and fix the recruiting. Filling the ranks with foreigners is FAILURE.
If they had not given recruiting to private companies with zero idea of what is needed in the military, would have been a good idea. They didn't, they massively failed.
As an ADF soldier of 17 years ill tell you how to fix it. Its super simple. Grab a chair and a note pad. Ready?
Pay them more.
WOW! what a concept.
And actually force DVA to look after them once they have left! I am disgusted how ex service personnel are treated.
@linkincsar269...
When did our Military get so screwed over by governments and corrupt hierarchy of their financial entitlements for throughout their life. This is so repugnant. How dare they be diminished like that. I've supported the RSL for many years now. I joined in honour of my ancestors. My ancestors fought in WW1 and WW2 and Vietnam, and hearing their life stories of patriotic pride and sacrifice growing up, sitting around the dining table with my maternal and paternal grand
parents, I see a person in uniform now, and I want to civilly salute them. THANK YOU for your service, pride, and patriotism, it is appreciated and respected by a large majority of us. You do, do us proud. Even if you don't hear that. We are proud and thankful for your service. 🇦🇺🙏🇦🇺🙏
Start prioritising male recruits and ditch the woke crap.
agreed. All the ads ive been seeing are of women in non-combat roles, Doesn't spark any patriotism.
Don't forget about the millions spent making rations halal.
My mate was going to do out of trade posting to Defence Force Recruiting, but they told him about the Recruiting requirements and he turned it down. They want a percentage of women/indigenous to men. We both left 6 month after finding out about this rubbish, we both had over 12 years of service. It's sad what's going on with the ADF. Plus, so much imigrantes that don't really care about Australia, why die for them.
@@ViperOptix , what you’ve said is no surprise. Typical Canberra bubble BS.
I’m glad I did my time when I did.
@@ViperOptix Mate it's a shame to hear that, i'm in the final stages of selection for infantry so i hope the % rule doesn't effect my chances of getting in.
I've been having chats with my son and his friends who are in their late 20s, early 30s, and I asked if they would fight for Australia. The consensus was a resounding NO, not now while ALBO and LABOR were still in power.
They feel there is no hope anymore of ever owning their own home, as half were university educated, working in their chosen fields, but had huge HECS debts of $30000+, my child in that half, and the other half were tradies who were working longer hours of overtime to just stay afloat, and two of them had lost their jobs because of the business going under.
They hate what this government has/is doing to this country, especially to all the right and true Australian people. The born and bred and naturalised Australians who have been here for years, decades even, proudly helping this country grow. Their anger is tangible, because they feel they are being usurped and overlooked in favour of all this immigration over the last two years especially. Some have had to move back with parents because their rents were raised by almost $100 to be around $600 to $700 per week on rundown sh.t properties, and landlords not doing any maintenance. Two young guys did not have any hot water for a month and were told by their landlord it would get done soon. Would landlords like to wait a month for a hot shower. NO. Ffs. That's abhorrent behaviour.
They commented if it was for Pauline/One Nation then yes but only if she was PM. Our kids are suffering more from anxiety and depression because their lives and livelihoods are in question, as well as there is no real permanency of jobs, they are mostly only 3, 6 and 12 month casual contracts. They don't know if they can even afford to have children because they both have to work.
33 years ago, we had similar thoughts. but it was easier and doable with job security. Not anymore.
ALBO/LABOR have the most to answer for and account for. Their pretense, their dishonesty and lies, their corruption and their heinous deeds are just too huge, and we cannot afford any part of POMPOUS CONTEMPTUOUS ALBO AND HIS REPUGNANT BAND OF LABOR THIEVES.
We are royally f.d if we don't remove their power.
So, so well said! Millions of "Real Australians" totally agree with you!
Not just labor , all four major parties must go !
All good minsters from any of those parties should cross the floor & run as independents.
One nation & decent independents should suffice. 4 years can’t hurt .
@concernedaussie1330
Yes, I do agree that the 2 major parties have to be broken apart permanently. Not One Nation though, but I would love to see James Patterson, Jacinta N Price and Warren Mundine get together with other good patriotic Australian politicians and form a party, putting Australia and Australians first in every way, and what we want. I am also not sorry to say, our Government/Parliament needs to be comprised of white and Indigenous Australians citizens only. No one from other nations people allowed into top government positions. I say this because people from other cultures who get naturalised are still more patriotic to their own ethnicity/homeland and have their own agenda's in government to fulfill. Just look at Mehreen Faruqui and Fatima Payman to start with. Only Christian. Western, Indigenous politicians should run Australia.
@@GEMelleeMaynopenottoday1133 let’s make it happen. No political donations ether.
@concernedaussie1330
YES, please let's make it happen. I hate these preference votes, and I want them to be totally abolished. That's how ANAL slipped in through the Greens and whoever else aligned. LNP are only marginally better, but I'd feel more positive if James Patterson was their leader at the helm. PEDU is only slightly better than ANAL, just another branch of the same dying tree. I don't feel his conviction or passion. I am not inspired by his responses in Question Time. Pauline/One Nation have to give their preferences to LNP, which is so wrong, but in my mind, if we can give them at least 95% of all votes, that would give her more power over LNP and PEDU I think, so the major party cannot just do as they please. Am I wrong on that point? I say this, because of looking at ANAL/LABOR since they took power. They are like ravenous pigs in sh.t with taxpayers money, giving Australian's some crumbs, and acting like they are great and generous, when in fact they are the complete opposite. When I look at ANAL, I see a money grabbing glutton shoving our cash with his fat greedy fingers, into planes and everything else to overseas gluttons. We have to stop him before we are crushed from within. Time to pick the best solution for real Australia/ns. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🙏🙏🙏
Obviously they aren’t getting the message!
The woke government has made a divided nation that’s very hard to love .
When people don’t love their nation , don’t wanta serve or die for it .
Any society that requires mercenaries in trouble
It has all but come to this.
The ADF recruitment process is a complete joke..thousands of young kids cant get in due to the ADFs sheer incompetency...there is no lack of recruits its a lack of proffessional process....
This is true, my son and his mates have been in the process of applying for 4 months and still only halfway through. A lot of kids just give up.
Defence Force Recruitment prioritise Indigenous and females over males. My mate who I served with turned down an out of trade posting to DFR because they told him he would be required to recruit x numbe of females/Indigenous over males. We both left Defence shortly after finding out about this. We both served over 12 years each.
One of my sons is trying to get in but lm trying to convince him not to..
@@Brad-lt4lw when I left after 13 years, I was a SGT who was managing a platoon that was down 10 people, I was carrying out responsibility of a CPL during work hrs 0730-1600, I also was acting WO2 of the platoon. I would spend my afternoons staying back late catching up on my WO2 and SGT responsibilities eveyday. Some nights working on the Defence portal at home untill I went to bed. Defence has maning issues but they continue to carry out business like normal, it's extremely dangerous and I'm surprised we are not seeing more deaths during training.
If a war breaks out they'll even sign up blind people in wheelchairs....
Being ex defence I can tell you one huge problem is the erosion of benifits. I saw them worsen as I entered, while I was in and now that I'm gone.
It's hard to believe they can't get enough troops. The ADF recruitment turned down 10 times as many people as they let in.
Messages of "Australia is a bad country", "we're on stolen land", "The West is evil", "Aggression is Toxic masculinity", and soldiers getting vilified and charged with war crimes for fighting in a war, and then, 'Oh by the way, come and join the ADF!" 😅
No they are vilified and charged for murdering innocent rural peasants (non-combatants)!
@@GLEN-ys7qt Ah yep, they should have followed procedure and set up an interview tent with full genealogical investigation and history research on the battlefield to ascertain the identity of each and every one of the enemy combatants.
It's not the Napoleonic Wars where each enemy is clearly demarcated, it was a war in which the enemy routinely use locals, women and children as human shields or as soldiers.
Easy to take the moral high ground and pass judgement until you're actually in a war.
Nor am I saying everyone in the ADF is innocent as a lamb, but the trial of soldiers who risked their lives on the battlefield for this country was nothing short of disgusting. Small wonder the ADF now faces a recruitment crisis.
@@yggdrasil9039 When they all start believing their own super hero BS and then begin acting it out it never ends well!
A few bad eggs isn't the entire military
@@GLEN-ys7qtEven the US had some bad eggs. Who was charged. I agree with exactly what you have stated. And also a few bad eggs isn't the entire military as some people claim..many Aussies still join the ADF. Just not as many as they hoped. As why they looking towards the 5 eyes countries. Give them an opportunity to serve and gain citizenship in Australia also.
A lot of good quality people in defence, but the head is rotten.
Why don't the ADF recruiting team go to Secondary Schools at the end of Year 12 to talk to all the undecided school leavers< and why do we have any women at the top of Defence?
Hey Muppet, there are 3 x 3 star Lieutenant Generals. Bugger all soldiers but plenty of generals 🤮
There are government sectors that have put woman in higher ranks that don't really have the skills it's just to appease the equality people and these sectors are suffering and people don't want to work under someone that is not competent. They are feeling it but we are not reading about it due to it not fitting the narrative.
@dilligaf8349
We really do have to stop listening to the b.s. narrative. Our ADF/Milatary need good patriotic strong personnel, strong on integrity, morals, personality and good behaviour, psychologically fit and balanced to make the absolute right decisions for Australia and for her security, protection and strength. As a woman, I can honestly say I don't give a cr.p if it's a man or woman in charge. As long as their qualifications are exemplary in all aspects of leadership, with proven abilities and aptitude through the rising ranks, who does not have any tolerance for bullying within said ranks and is not WOKE or WEAK. Who cares if they are Male or Female, as long as they do a great patriotic job within the laws and rules of defence. We will be "right mate", as they used to say in the '70s. These young lost offenders who, having no real direction in life, I think a stint in a military type school situation run by ADF/Teachers, could be life changing and liberating for their successful future, with the right leaders and mentors guiding them. I have male cousins who forged better careers and lives starting in the ADF. I also believe that our Australian Indigenous people are the absolute best at guarding our borders and inland areas from boats, interlopers, and infiltrators into the back doors of this vast country. They are just as skilled or can be trained in what is needed to protect. Our Indigenous are brilliant at tracking, bush skill survival and overall survival. They were the starting stitches in Australia's tapestry of life, before British white man arrived. Australians supporting true, patriotic proud Australians. Skin color is optional, but not essential. Very pale Australians sunscreen is provided.😄 🇦🇺🙏😁
I bet if Pauline Hanson was a general you wouldn't complain.
Planting seeds.
Bingo . As this isn’t part of the plan .
Switched on!
Britain's talking about national service, now all of a sudden this seems to be circulating all over the media and radio in Oz, It's all I've been hearing all this week.....We all know what this is leading up to.
Why pick on Defence? Australia’s track record on large public infrastructure of ANY kind is beyond laughable 😂 😂😂 The litany of hilariously and shockingly bungled projects is endless.
Just send the women
those who made Starwars especially.
They simply do not pay enough money for the job
I served for 35 years. However, given the appalling decisions by our ADF chiefs in recent years there is no way that I would want to join now. Its all about leadership and confidence that you will be supported by the senior officers.
How about recruiting Caucasian hetro males again then maybe you would have a fighting force once more.
My son in-law wanted nothing but to join the adf and his dream was destroyed after a few years . Start treating those who serve with respect
What are the fight for?
You would be a fool to join up. You may get a rainbox coloured handbag.
If they want to learn a trade then the armed forces will teach them, it's a win win.
Labor have NFI about defense.
Or degate
Another thing is enemy country not allowing civilians firearms with a lot to do in corruption and tyranny.
Tan, Ali, Chen, Mustafa and Seamus all agree!
Switzerland has a home militia . Every male 20 or older has to serve.
Issued with a rifle & ammunition Training requied yearly.
Dont want to serve. ?You need to forfeit 3% of your yearly income
Australia could have 3.2 million serving😊.
Many countries have national service for the young these days Australia should be no exception.
With equality 50% female, women push for equality in other roles they get what they wish for.
This is what happens when you outsource recruiting. I joined the Navy a long time ago and I went for the testing in the October and I started training in January of the following year (recruitment was done by individual service personnel and it was done efficiently). I was told that there were five applicants for every person accepted, there was no shortage of potential applicants. So what is going wrong, from a Navy perspective, could it be the two ocean Navy policy, changes in superannuation over the years, lack of single service identity, uninteresting deployments, senior officers putting their interests above the sailors to climb the greasy pole, wokeness in the military, putting sailors in the wrong category and advising them they can change later, too much emphasis on education when recruiting (particularly as it has been failing boys for many years) and not common sense. I'm old and don't understand the motivations of the youth of today, but maybe we should be asking those younger officers, sailors, soldiers, and airman who are currently serving on what attracted them and moving forward how do the services attract the right people.
Why not employ foreigners? The Vatican uses Swiss citizens. The Brits use Gurkhas. The Russians use Chechens. The French use foreigners (Foreign Legion).
There's a current requirement for Australian school age citizens who want to join the ADF at 16 that they attain a C in Maths and English. There are many.. MANY, very smart young (and old) adults who don't (didn't) pass Maths and English (because our curriculum is rubbish, *remember Poetry, Shakespeare, algebra, calculus, area of a trapezoid 😵*) who want to join the ADF and contribute to the defence of our great nation, yet cannot. Then, the Greens and Labor want to lower the voting age to 16 (because youths know what they want) without assessing people's grades, and we should all respect their wishes. Yet people who want to join the ADF and defend our country at 16 cannot do so because the need to pass stupid memory exams. 🤔
Well if they wanted people/kids to join the army to fight a war like they did in WW1 and WW2 they weren't too fussy about what age or education grades they were they just needed bodies. Why do they have to be so educated now? dont they train people in the services these days??!!
My guy, that's not the problem. That should be the bare minimum. Getting a C in basic maths and english is not hard and 90% of school kids can achieve that. The minority that can't have something wrong with them either due to family problems or mental health and would not be fit to serve anyway. As a soldier, you still need some degree of having a brain. If you cant achieve a passing score in school, that's ridiculous considering you can choose the easiest maths and english subjects. The easiest maths grade 12 in our school was literally times tables.
@@AZ-ph4fs You must've went to a very special school if grade 12 maths were times tables.
@@origprankster No, there was 3 levels of maths. I did the 2 hardest maths subjects with the highest including matrices, vectors, calculus, pretty much everything you find in foundational university mathematics.
The lowest level however was very basic stuff like times tables etc. It was meant for kids that literally just hated and didn't want to do maths but is still a prerequisite to pass highschool. If you fail that, you're genuinely just lacking brain cells and would not be fit to join the army.
@@AZ-ph4fsit’s been a while since you went to school. You have described year 8 in today’s curriculum.
I'm sorry to report but I spent the last two years doing a mentality check on the Defence force. Turns out the grunt and lower ranks know what they want to do and what they stand for.
Australia is not at war and as such it does not require defending. Young people do not want to spend their lives training to kill people when they do not have to and have other options. If our politicians decide to go to war, then they should be in the front of the line and the primeminister leads the way ...
well its not just about defending..becuase the time is coming where the west will have to stop other countries crimes by force. Everything is spiralling out of control now.
Many countries oblige their young people to give some time to training in the services these days its always good to be a bit ready to defend the country.
I actively explain to young people I work with why they shouldn’t join .
Not this post 1996 government agenda. We could go back to 1973 .
Our politicians have destroyed Australia & this is the result.
Australian people have gotta take our nation back before it’s gone forever.
Weak people will say it’s to late , we don’t need everyone just enough.
Most young Australians are not homosexuals, lesbians or transvestites.
Why would the want a career with the ADF?
Both sides of government are guilty of short changing the defence force. The job of the Department of Defence is to provide the military with the relevant equipment and personnel resources required to adequately do the defence tasks assigned. The DoD is not there to dictate what and how the military branches do their work. I was a reservist in the 80's when some one had the bright idea to tax Reserve Forces income and then couldn't understand the number of fully qualified members deciding to leave thatvthe tax measures were soon scrapped but not before a significant loss of experienced manpower. Also consider how both sides of government have continually failed in their duty of care to veterans returning from deployments no proper medical or psychological care and left to fend for themselves. After WW1 returning veterans were offered plots of farm land that became long running successful family concerns at the very least we should be supplying a basic house /cottage to raise a family if desired as an acknowledgement of the sacrifices they have made whilst serving.
The current Defence Review shows that the Defence Department and politicians have no proper understanding of what is actually required to provide the protection they expect from the Army, Navy and Airforce. The various Branch senior officers should sit down actually calculate what is truly needed to provide a baseline personnel and equipment requirement which is then taken to the Department staff whose job should be to obtain the appropriate resources as quickly and efficiently as possible. When the DoD places a tender for a piece of equipment and the winning supplier has accepted the price then it must be stipulated in the order that any costs above the original price are total the responsibility of the supplier and not Australian taxpayers. If the DoD decides to make changes during the time of the contract then there may be additional costs to be negotiated. Also any delays in delivery times should have no effect on the Department and any relevant penalty clauses for such delays etc should be properly enforced. Private companies love enforcement of penalties on others, it's about time Australian governments do the same, especially when government politicians claim to want to be more like private companies...looking at you conservatives.
for what war ?
Shut up Greg
Yeah, Greg woulda been a real big player at school. All the chicks wanted to have his babies, hahahahaha. His favourite documentary is "Revenge of the Nerds"
@@ceeemm1901 dumb comment me thinks
Could we look at the option of creating foreign legion unit to something similar to that of the French Foreign Legion
Extreme incompetence would be the best description, I doubt anyone is fired for productivity.
Had a few family members dealing with defence recruitment, If they were a private company they would be broke.
French have foreign legeion british have gurcas
Must have been tough for Sheridan to commend Labor's policy on this issue. Obviously not what Sky News would have expected.
We need a united commonwealth fighting force why can’t a brit/kiwi/canadian/aussie apply to join the others forces as a new recruit
Like it was prior to the UK joining the EU.
@@advanceaustralia3513 exactly, I’m British but I’d join the ADF if I was allowed, I want to move to Aus so there’s no reason anyone like me or from commonwealth countries shouldn’t be allowed to do it providing they’re trustworthy and it should enforced to enable you to gain citizenship.
@Randy-Snorton Next month, 1st of July you will get that opportunity. Apply. You will get in. Only British Canadians Americans and New Zealanders can apply. 5 eyes countries. You can get permanent residency and eventually citizenship also for joining. As long as you don't have a serious criminal history. The ADF will take you from age of 18 to 50. Australian ADF aptitude test is basic year 9. Virtually if you can read and write. Do basic maths and not color blind. You're in
@@Nathan-ry3yu i’m not a permanent resident and it mentioned July is when Kiwis can sign up not Brits
Good idea to far apart.
get Ghurkas best soldier in the world
Campbell wasted a tremendous amount of young Australians time going through their You Sessions (especially males during his quota B.S) The weight list was another problem, people waiting for almost a year to get to a recruit course, many of them found other employment because they never checked up on them. You bet there was a recruiting problem, that and the constant media showing nothing but negative, how the government (and Campbell again) went after the ADF. The Australian government has no clue on how to maintain or improve the Defence Portfolio period. This whole idea of international soldiers is just like the government ripping apart Australian business, just get something (or someone) from overseas rather than having any trust in its own people.
In my opinion it's a sort of discrimination to limit recruitment only to Five eyes countries. The ADF recruitment authorities must act professionally as anticipated. The ADF goal should be focused solely on the immediate requirements not on selective criteria. I believe that the permanent residents who willing to join military this act itself has already proven loyalty and commitment of these individuals to Australia. waiting to become a citizen to be able to join military is only matter of time which is somehow nonsense. America and UKs' approaches must be undertake to overcome the challenge of lack of military personnel in Australian army. Additionally, Afghan individuals who used to serve as interpreters for ADF in Afghanistan for several years can be optimal to fill this gap specifically with years of experiences they gained through their service along collation forces in different fields and in terms of security check they are no concerns as they have gone through this process many times during the years of their faithful service.
Make an ADF anime like the JSDF did for their military. i garuntee it'll work. after watching many military anime its intensified my wanting to serve
Ice-Age bureaucracy.
Bring back national service 😊
✅️ yes
As an aside to my last post my fiancé is Cambodian and her son would love to join our adf but it’s not a country they want
That is true. The political leadership need to put their money where their mouth is.
Why announce to the world how bad our military is ? Let the world know how vulnerable we are .
Sky News makes it look better than it actually is.
Maybe if young Australians felt like they could even buy a house and survive on defence wages, and having something worth fighting for, they would have enough soldiers?
comparing rugby and the military...
Shocking
You cant live off a defence force salary
it supposes to live on state account (barrack, uniform, canteen, middle of nowhere etc) and all salary goes directly to savings. If "live in usual house in town and go to service as job" it does not work.
How much do you value sovereignty 6:49
Sheridan would be complain if the did the oposite and speed up recruiting.
Of course you can't arm a Collins class with a tomahawk. That it was even a conversation shocks me.
National service and introduce conscription.
Australia has had a successful “lateral transfer’
They need more women with two moms
Australia Starts recruiting 🫣💩😞☠️☠️☠️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️
😂 you have no idea then, Capt Genius of the struggle of those less Genius than you I guess. But you say your school’s basic maths in Grade 12 was only Times Tables.
I joined the army back in 1998 - and I am convinced it was because of the TV ads back in the 80's - th-cam.com/video/iVOdAPWxvz4/w-d-xo.html
I like Greg Sheridan.
How do you join the ADF in Australia when the Australian government have given most of weapons and armoured vehicles went to the Ukrainians to fight a war that has nothing to do with Australia
Theres too many holes you have to jump through
Permanent National draft/service, 2year minimum, 18 to 20 years old, exception of those getting into uni for STEM degrees, they join the reserves for their entire degree length.
Problem solved 🙏
That's if people rock up, chances are there ain't enough jails for the numver of contentious objectors
@@frost2314 yes true.... i suppose we could always try to 'out woke' the enemy, imagine if they invaded and then did not use peoples correct pro nouns🤣
Good idea, yes the exception should only be for STEM courses and not degrees in arts, roman architecture.....and other BS degrees that don't contribute to Defence technology.
It proves again how little Labor has ever given a crap about the Defence Force.
We dont need to have young men come back in body bags .what Australia needs right now is technology been built here in Australia we also need to cool the jets on jumping in to anymore wars with anyone .lets focus on Hypersonic missiles that can target ships and planes from well over the Horizon as well as drones that can increase our surveillance capabilities . The most important thing we need to focus on are jobs for Australians in manufacturing farming defence fisheries and continue to export food to Asia building closer tyres and friendlier relationships let's not get bogged down in the politics of international BS