Army is accepting more low-quality recruits

WASHINGTON — Faced with increasing demand for new soldiers, the Army has reached deeper into the pool of marginally qualified recruits, offered hundreds of millions in bonuses and relaxed the process for granting waivers for marijuana use.

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-WiscoDave
 

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Can you say McNamara's Folly?

One of the reasons I got out of the army was because the higher in rank I got and the longer I was in, the more I realized I was surrounded by fucking idiots, and I'm not talking just soldiers but senior NCOs as well. They may have had the Army Way drilled into them as far as soldiering went, but they couldn't make a correct common sense decision to save their lives.

And now they're making it worse.