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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-15-03 02:39 PM
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Known sex offenders serve in military, records show
By Elliot Jaspin, Palm Beach Post-Cox News Service Staff Writer
Sunday, September 14, 2003

WASHINGTON -- Registered sex offenders are serving in the U.S. armed forces and some have been sent to the volatile Middle East, state law enforcement records show.

A Cox Newspapers survey of sex offender registries in five states turned up eight men listed as serving in the military. One was pictured on the Web site of the Texas registry in his Army uniform with the notation, "deployed to Kuwait."

Military officials acknowledged the presence of sex offenders and said screening procedures are being tightened to prevent such enlistments in the future.

Army officials said subsequent checks had found two more recruits with a history of sex crimes. They said the FBI fingerprint checks required of all recruits had failed to disclose their convictions.

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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-15-03 02:41 PM
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1. The guy portrayed as the hero in "Black Hawk Down" is now in
prison for sexual assault on a minor.

Interesting....
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TSElliott Donating Member (513 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-15-03 03:02 PM
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8. Hero????
Ewan McGregor's character Grimes who is based off of John Stebbins (the sex offender) was a good character in the movie but I would not say he was the Hero.
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-15-03 03:05 PM
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9. okay MAIN CHARACTER... not hero! Since I won't watch the movie,
I'll stand corrected!

Thanks!
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bitchkitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-15-03 02:43 PM
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2. This quote is total b.s.
and said screening procedures are being tightened to prevent such enlistments in the future.


I know for a fact that they DO check people's criminal records. My stepsister joined the Army years ago. She had a shoplifting conviction that she did not mention, and they found out about it. She was able to get in because they allowed one "mistake" and she got a waiver. They do check, and they have for years.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-15-03 02:44 PM
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3. What? They aren't all golden haired fighters for freedom
Sounds like the serial rapist and murderer we had in our unit. Joined with a fake birth certificate, he was already wanted in Chicago.
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Rebel_with_a_cause Donating Member (933 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-15-03 02:44 PM
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4. Jesus Christ. And the military is worried about gays?!
Is it safe to say enlistments are down?
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-15-03 02:46 PM
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5. What, you have to be crime free to kill paople?
WTF?!?!?
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-15-03 02:46 PM
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6. I know that there is antipathy for sex offenders but really
unless their crimes are going to become capital cases, they have to live and work somewhere.

If they can't serve in the military after their jail sentences, where do you suggest they go?
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wuushew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-15-03 02:47 PM
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7. I predict a spate of "honor killings" in Iraq
as is the custom in middle east.
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