U.S. is recruiting misfits for army: Racists, Felons, Gang members

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/10/01/ING42LCIGK1.DTL

After falling short of its goals last year, military recruiting in 2006 has been marked by upbeat pronouncements from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, claims of success by the White House, and a spate of recent press reports touting the military's achievement of its woman- and manpower goals.

But the armed forces have met with success only through a fundamental transformation, and not the transformation of the military -- that "co-evolution of concepts, processes, organizations and technology" that Rumsfeld is always talking about either.

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Another type of gang member has also begun to proliferate within the military, evidently thanks to lowered recruitment standards and an increasing tendency of recruiters to look the other way. In July, a study by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks racist and right-wing militia groups, found that because of pressing manpower concerns, "large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists" are now serving in the military. "Recruiters are knowingly allowing neo-Nazis and white supremacists to join the armed forces, and commanders don't remove them from the military even after we positively identify them as extremists or gang members," said Scott Barfield, a Defense Department investigator quoted in the report.

The New York Times noted that the neo-Nazi magazine Resistance is actually recruiting for the U.S. military, urging "skinheads to join the Army and insist on being assigned to light infantry units." As the magazine explained, "The coming race war and the ethnic cleansing to follow will be very much an infantryman's war. ... It will be house-to-house ... until your town or city is cleared and the alien races are driven into the countryside where they can be hunted down and 'cleansed.' "

Apparently, the recruiting push has worked. Barfield reported that he and other investigators have identified a network of neo-Nazi active-duty Army and Marine personnel spread across five military installations in five states. "They're communicating with each other about weapons, about recruiting, about keeping their identities secret, about organizing within the military," he said.

Little wonder that Aryan Nation graffiti is now apparently competing for space with American inner-city gang graffiti in Iraq.

after they sent all the gays home. :sarcasm:

:sarcasm:

http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=9568
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Although accessions waivers have gone up recently, the category that increased is mainly misdemeanors. For the Active Army and Reserve, serious crime waivers remain below one percent, medical waivers have gone down and drug and alcohol waivers remain below one percent. Furthermore, drug and alcohol abuse has not ‘skyrocketed.’ For example, drug positive rates have decreased from 2.13 percent (FY02) to 1.91 percent (FY05).
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The information about Category IV recruits is misleading. We have found that test taking ability does have some correlation to trainability, but it does not measure loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, personal courage, or attrition. The Army builds its leaders from America’s young people. They grow, learn and adapt to become tomorrow’s leaders. The Army complies with the Department of Defense standard for allowable recruits from Category IV, which is four percent and continues to do so. Every Soldier we recruit is fully qualified for the specialty they enlist for.


In other words..we aren't to choosy about our cannon fodder anymore...

remember the premise for the "Dirty Dozen"? (and many other WWII movies where bad-guys were offered military v jail)

what part of our country AREN'T these neo-cons bent on polluting with their soulless stench?

..oh right no...but then again there is.....ummm...well no that is also polluted...ah but...oh wait...

Oh wait got one! The LIbrul Media...thats why they are talking about global warming, torture bill etc. instead of John Karr and Anna Nicolls....

There ya go...

responsibility himself?

sure and kick the qualified able and willing soldiers out!!

I would put a sarcasm smilie but this is the truth.

skinhead extremists) from our own society, well, there goes the honor of soldiers reputation.

when they get back home and are shoehorned into domestic security forces with their newfound resume.