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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"RealityCheck" |
| Date: |
14 Feb 2007 05:51:51 PM |
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Just what you'd expect under Busholini! |
Military Accepting More Ex-Cons
Associated Press | February 14, 2007
WASHINGTON - More recruits with criminal records, including felony
convictions, are being allowed to join the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, as
the armed services cope with a dwindling pool of volunteers during wartime.
The military routinely grants waivers to take in recruits who have criminal
records, medical problems or low aptitude scores that would otherwise
disqualify them from service. Most are moral waivers, which include some
felonies, misdemeanors, and traffic and drug offenses.
Defense Department statistics show that the number of Army and Marine
recruits needing waivers for felonies and serious misdemeanors, including
minor drug offenses, has grown since 2003. Some recruits may get more than
one waiver.
The Army granted more than double the number of waivers for felonies and
misdemeanors in 2006 than in 2003.
The number of felony waivers granted by the Army grew from 411 in 2003 to
901 in 2006, according to the Pentagon, or about one in 10 of the moral
waivers approved that year. Other misdemeanors - from petty theft or writing
a bad check to some assaults - jumped from about 2,700 to more than 6,000 in
2006, representing more than three-quarters of moral waivers granted by the
Army.
Army and Defense Department officials defended the waiver program as a way
to admit young people who had made a mistake but overcome past behavior.
Lawmakers and other observers said they were concerned that the struggle to
fill military ranks in this time of war had caused standards to fall.
"Our armed forces are under incredible strain, and the only way that they
can fill their recruiting quotas is by lowering their standards," said Rep.
Marty Meehan, a Massachusetts Democrat who has been working to get
additional data from the Pentagon. "By lowering standards, we are
endangering the rest of our armed forces and sending the wrong message to
potential recruits across the country."
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121. Let no man think lightly of evil, saying in his heart, It will not come
nigh unto me. Even by the falling of water-drops a water-pot is filled; the
fool becomes full of evil, even if he gather it little by little.
http://www.zenguide.com/principles/sutras/content.cfm?t=dhammapada&chapter=09
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| User: "Docky Wocky" |
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| Title: Re: Just what you'd expect under Busholini! |
14 Feb 2007 09:27:55 PM |
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realitycheck sez:
"Defense Department statistics show that the number of Army and Marine
recruits needing waivers for felonies and serious misdemeanors, including
minor drug offenses, has grown since 2003. Some recruits may get more than
one waiver..."
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Oh, but of course we should be very, very careful of the character of the
troops we send to fight with the insurgent savages lest the insurgent
savages protest to their Iranian pals.
As I remember things at the MCRD, PISC in 66, a significant number of the
boots coming in from the New England area were 17-18 YO dudes who got the
old choice of, "Join the Marines, or go to prison," from the judges back in
those day. They seemed to do OK for us.
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