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Vendaval -> RE: From Salon.com News - "Out of jail, into the Army" (3/24/2007 4:55:20 PM)
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Bingo! Somebody step up to the plate and give Ron a blow job! lol
In the NY Times article referenced by domiguy, this is what caught my attention -
"Army Gives More Waiters in Recruiting"
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
Published: February 14, 2007
"John D. Hutson, dean and president of the Franklin Pierce Law Center in New Hampshire and former judge advocate general of the Navy, said the military must tread carefully in deciding which criminals to accept. There is a reason, he said, why allowing people with criminal histories into the military has long been the exception rather than the rule.
“If you are recruiting somebody who has demonstrated some sort of antisocial behavior and then you are a putting a gun in their hands, you have to be awfully careful about what you are doing,” Mr. Hutson said. “You are not putting a hammer in their hands, or asking them to sell used cars. You are potentially asking them to kill people.”
Correction: February 27, 2007
A front-page article on Feb. 14 about an increase in the number of waivers granted to Army recruits with criminal backgrounds referred imprecisely to the crimes for which the Army grants the bulk of its "moral waivers." While they indeed include serious misdemeanors, they also include felonies such as aggravated assault, burglary, robbery and vehicular homicide. (The error was repeated in an editorial last Tuesday.)"
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/us/14military.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5088&en=06c953182b1c51bb&ex=1329109200&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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ORIGINAL: mnottertail
Well, your professor is an ignorant dick then, and would be straining at gnats instead of considering the whales (and you are not a ditzy blonde, btw) since the point of the thread is that the services are not making recruiting goals, and this is one more sign of the desperate straits we find ourselves now contemplating.
Had he pointed out that as always, when these waivers are instituted, as opposed to the quiet and illegal acts of cops and judges that something more than a general malaise is in the offing.
Ron
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