'Reading Eagle' Gets Documents About National Guard Recruiters Altering Papers

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Reading Eagle

Two Pennsylvania National Guard recruiters are being disciplined for altering documentation in their pursuit of two former Reading High School students, a Guard spokesman said.

An Allentown recruiter was reduced in rank from staff sergeant to sergeant, while disciplinary action against a Philadelphia recruiter is pending, said Lt. Col. Christopher Cleaver, a Guard spokesman.

Capt. Bill Jimenez, head of the U.S. Marine Corps Junior ROTC program at Reading High School, said the two cases prompted him to stop referring students to the state National Guard.

"I told the Guard recruiters in Reading about this and they said they thought it was wrong, and in their next breath they were asking me what the kid's status was now," Jimenez said. "They didn't care about the fraud, they wanted to get the kid."



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“Some of our kids are being promised a college education and instead are getting boots and a rifle,” Jimenez said.

Jimenez said he is not referring Reading students to the Pennsylvania Army National Guard after discovering two cases in which recruiters, one in Philadelphia and one in Allentown, filed fraudulent documents and tried to mislead school officials to get former students to enlist.

Col. Christopher Cleaver, a Guard spokesman, said the recruiters in the cases have been disciplined.

“I think it is inappropriate for Capt. Jimenez to then address this issue in the media when both of these cases have already been addressed,” Cleaver said.

Jimenez said he’s not convinced that what he calls recruiting fraud isn’t an ongoing problem.

http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=69833

[Sabriel]

1. PANG to Jimenez: STFU

<<Col. Christopher Cleaver, a Guard spokesman, said the recruiters in the cases have been disciplined.

“I think it is inappropriate for Capt. Jimenez to then address this issue in the media when both of these cases have already been addressed,” Cleaver said.>>

Hmmmm, sounds like someone doesn't want this in front of the public too long.

Thanks to Capt. Jimenez for his hard work in keeping it alive! If only more people like him displayed similar concern and ethical consideration.

[Hekate]

2. No Child Left Unrecruited. SOBs. nt

[xchrom]

3. i hope this leads to an investigation in other high schools. nt