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posted by The Vidiot @ 6:03 PM Permalink

Army Relaxes Its Standards to Fill Ranks
Critics say push to meet quotas may let unstable recruits join up

Pentagon officials announced Monday that the Army has managed to achieve its latest recruiting goals, while admitting that they have lowered some standards that had been set to ensure the quality of the force.
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Coincidentally, the Pentagon's announcement on recruiting came on the same day the military identified several soldiers it accuses of participating in the rape and murders with Green.
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To allow more recruits to join, the Army last fall amended its rule that it can sign up no more than 2 percent of recruits who score between 15 and 30 out of 99 on the Army's aptitude test. Now, up to 4 percent of Army recruits can score under 30 on the aptitude test, which measures such things as the applicants' knowledge of mathematics and command of the English language, said Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty, an Army spokesman.
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"We're being held up to an impossibly high standard," Hilferty said.

Scoring less than an 'F' on a test about english and arithmetic, (I've taken the test, there isn't any 'math' on it, there aren't even any story problems on it), is an 'impossibly high standard'!?

Hilferty said Army recruiters have "an aggressive mental health program" consisting of tests and checkups intended to weed out applicants with mental health problems or personality disorders -- which Green is reported to have -- during either recruiting or at basic training.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors racist and right-wing militia groups, reported this month that thousands of white supremacists may have infiltrated the military, taking advantage of loosened recruiting standards.

"Over the last several years, there has been a lot of pressure, and ... some of the recruiters have turned a blind eye," said Mark Potok, who works at the center. The Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist hate groups in 1996.

So to meet their goals they let in drunks, addicts and mentally ill people. The torture in Abu Ghraib, the slayings in Haditha, the rape and murder by Green et al are not anomalies, they are the expected outcome of policies instituted by the Bush regime.