Facing manpower shortages, Army to lower bar for recruits

Now if only those neo-con and Freepers fighting keyboarders would join the Army we would have enough troops to fight in Iraq and then invade Iran, Syria and North Korea too. Fu@king chicken-hawks that that are.


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-104army,0,94616.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines


"WASHINGTON -- Facing recruiting shortages brought on by the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army has decided to accept a greater number of recruits who score near the bottom of military aptitude tests, the secretary of the Army said Monday"..........................Click link for rest

Back in my unit in the late Vietnam period (1971-1972) I was a squad leader. We had guys that were functionally illiterate. I remember we had to read the written test at the end of basic to one guy --

"How deep do you dig a cathole latrine?" Stuff like that.

In one inspection, a guy in my squad had two left boots shined next to his bunk ready for inspection. He had one right on on and was sitting on his bunk trying to pull the second one on when I went around checking the squad to make sure everyone was ready.

When they're talking about the lower rungs of the aptitude scale they're talking pretty damn low.

With the draft you at least got some ordinary people. With the all-volunteer army you're getting the Graners and Englunds. Keep it in mind the next time we talk about never re-instituting the draft.

What are they going to start taking 9th graders now?

Don

Rumbo said that...“draftees trained for a period of months, and then went out, adding no value, no advantage really, to the United States armed services…because the churning that took place, it took an enormous amount of effort in terms of training and they were gone.”

Soon Rumbo will call for starting up the draft boards again. If it wasn't for mid term elections, the draft would be in full swing NOW!

How low can they go?

liars

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