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jwirr

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Fri Aug-11-06 08:04 PM
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17. This and other recent criminal actions by soldiers may be an

indication that the armed forces are scrapping the bottom of the barrel for recruits. They have had a very hard time making their quotas and they may be dropping the bar too low. This does not mean that every recruit or every soldier is a bad person - only that the recruiters are taking people they would have rejected in the past for legal or medical reasons.

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