Military recruiters turn to strong-arm tactics

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http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060815/NEWS07/608150355/1009

WASHINGTON -- Military recruiters have increasingly resorted to overly aggressive tactics and criminal activity to attract young troops to the battlefield, congressional investigators say.

Combat conditions in Iraq, a decent job market and tough monthly recruiting goals have made recruiters' jobs more difficult, the Government Accountability Office said Monday.

According to data provided to the GAO, substantiated cases of wrongdoing jumped from about 400 cases in 2004 to almost 630 in 2005. Criminal cases -- such as sexual harassment or falsifying medical records -- more than doubled in those years, jumping from 30 incidents to 70.

But the report warned that reports of misconduct are likely too low because the armed services don't track such cases and many incidents go unreported.

[AreJay]

1. This is how they are avoiding a draft.

Because they know a draft would destroy them.

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2. They can't put it off forever. They're holding troops way past

the time they're supposed to be on active duty (especially in a war zone for God's sakes), they're taking the mentally ill and the less than physically fit, and now they're falsifying records and using coercion. They are running out of illegal tactics. If they want to keep fighting these oil wars, they're gonna eventually need the draft.

[AreJay]

3. You don't imagine that they care about the people now in uniform, do you?

They are DISPOSABLE to these assholes.

And using them totally up rather than drafting new young people limits the political damage.

editied because I cannot type.