Recruiting shortage: Pentagon changes policy to allow HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS to enlist

[Proud2BAmurkin]

http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=98160

http://www.slate.com/id/2127487/

This year the Army set a goal of recruiting 80,000 active-duty soldiers, but it wound up with just 73,000—almost 10 percent short. As a result, the Army Times reported this week, the Pentagon has decided to make up the difference by expanding the pool—by letting up to 10 percent of new recruits be young men and women who have neither graduated high school nor earned a General Equivalency Diploma.

[Phredicles]

1. Explains why Rethugs are in a lather over Kerry's misstatement, no?

[phantom power]

2. so much for the "professional military" they promised themselves after Viet Nam.

[judaspriestess]

3. this makes Kerry's comments

although directed at the chimp seem all the more alarming and true. Maybe this was a way for Kerry to bring it to the forefront

[SoCalDem]

4. Next!! "Kelly's Heroes, Redux"

Empty out those prisons..hey lots of them already have "weapons training"..:evilgrin:

[TechBear_Seattle]

5. I love that graphic in your sig!

Brilliant. Utterly brilliant. :hi:

[SoCalDem]

6. Thanks.. I made it for the '02 elections, but i use it every year

:)

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Second that vote on your sig graphic! nt

[lapfog_1]

8. "Do you KNOW what is in that Bank that you're guarding"

"You... you the American Army!"

"No we ain't babe."