More Entering Army with Criminal Records

[babylonsister]

I wonder if this is by choice?

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/13/2491/

More Entering Army with Criminal Records
by Bryan Bender

WASHINGTON - Nearly 12 percent of Army recruits who entered basic training this year needed a special waiver for those with criminal records, a dramatic increase over last year and 2 1/2 times the percentage four years ago, according to new Army statistics obtained by the Globe.

With less than three months left in the fiscal year, 11.6 percent of new active-duty and Army Reserve troops in 2007 have received a so-called “moral waiver,” up from 7.9 percent in fiscal year 2006, according to figures from the US Army Recruiting Command. In fiscal 2003 and 2004, soldiers granted waivers accounted for 4.6 percent of new recruits; in 2005, it was 6.2 percent. 0713 05

Army officials acknowledge privately that the increase in moral waivers reflects the difficulty of signing up sufficient numbers of recruits to sustain an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq; the Army fell short of its monthly recruiting goals in May and June.

Since Oct. 1, 2006, when the fiscal year began, more than 8,000 of the roughly 69,000 recruits have been granted waivers for offenses ranging in seriousness from misdemeanors such as vandalism to felonies such as burglary and aggravated assault.

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[wakeme2008]

1. And has been noted that a lot of gang bangers are signing

up....

Probably lots of drugs

[AspenRose]

4. More White Supremacists and Neo-Nazis, too.

:scared:

[AllegroRondo]

2. good - that means more Repubs can sign up

[valerief]

3. I figure they get their private army from prisons anyway. nt