Army recruits with criminal records has grown 65% in three years

Wetzelbill

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Wed Feb-14-07 07:10 AM
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Army recruits with criminal records has grown 65% in three years

The number of waivers granted to Army recruits with criminal backgrounds has grown about 65 percent in the last three years, increasing to 8,129 in 2006 from 4,918 in 2003, Department of Defense records show.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/us/14military.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1171429200&en=c0cc079ae87389d4&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin

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peacebird

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Wed Feb-14-07 07:14 AM
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1. Guess we know how they are meeting their quotas now, eh?

:eyes:
Are we back to the days where judges offer defendents Army instead of jail time yet?

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Wetzelbill

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Wed Feb-14-07 07:23 AM
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4. that and they changed their quotas

reduced them significantly in order to say they now are meeting them. Still far short of the old ones though. :)

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whistle

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Wed Feb-14-07 07:15 AM
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2. ReThuglicans want thugs for their private armies....

....Nazis in Germany did the same thing during Hitler's rise

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HysteryDiagnosis

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Wed Feb-14-07 07:18 AM
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3. We'll wring our hands when another Haditha/Abu Ghraib comes

about.

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ayeshahaqqiqa

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Wed Feb-14-07 07:38 AM
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5. I'm all for giving shoplifters and petty thieves a second chance

or the kid that "borrowed" the neighbor's car for a joy ride or the one who merely got in with the wrong crowd--but how many of their waivers are for serious offences? And how will we ever really know how many skinheads and their ilk are getting in to obtain "training"? I've heard of neo nazi websites that encourage this sort of thing.

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KittyWampus

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Wed Feb-14-07 08:58 AM
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8. You posted what I was thinking. We don't know the nature of the offenses.

Yet I suppose many DU'er will automatically declare the worst because it helps reinforce their opinions of the Iraq quagmire.

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BleedingHeartPatriot

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Wed Feb-14-07 07:52 AM
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6. A clear violation of reg. 601-210. My post about this last April, after reading about this in our

Edited on Wed Feb-14-07 08:18 AM by BleedingHeartPatriot

local newspaper. It was an article about Iraqi vets, and one had a judge tell him "the military or jail".

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1742369

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BleedingHeartPatriot

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Wed Feb-14-07 08:50 AM
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7. K & R. n/t

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Toots

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Wed Feb-14-07 09:44 AM
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9. When I grew up there was a draft and also a get out of jail free card if

you joined the military. Straightened out a lot of kids that were headed down the wrong path. Wish that alternative were still available today actually...My experience in the military can be summed up like this...I would not trade that time for anything in the world but I also would not wish it upon my worst enemy....

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