New recruting slogan: Jail or Join.

[unhappycamper]

whadoyathink?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. only if there's a draft eom

[KG]

2. wow, an army full of criminals - wouldn't that be great!

:eyes:

[jmm]

3. Aren't they doing that already?

We've got recruiters now threatening people with jail and offering to help them pass drug tests so they can join.

[Dr.Phool]

4. That was policy in the late '60s, early '70s

Get in trouble and the judge gave you a choice.

[xmas74]

5. They still do it.

I went to court recently w/ a friend over her ticket. There was a 18 yr old boy there fighting his DWI and MIP (we have a zero tolerance law). He stated that he wanted to go to college after school but was afraid that this would not look good to a recruiter. The judge told him that if he enlisted he would drop all the fines and probation time. The kid agreed. The judge set him a 60 day timeframe to bring his enlistment paperwork into the courthouse or else charges would be brought forward (this is his probation/parole idea I guess).
My best friend and I dropped our jaws when we heard this. We didn't know that this still happened to this day.

Saline County, MO.