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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo
Your word and your "brothers" word is probably worth shit around here. As I said, anyone who suggests that our military was planning an assasination of our President because "they didn't like him" is clueless. Stick to faking deaths on message boards.
There isn't?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7802712/
After that they had to lower the requirements to be accepted. They also started giving out huge bonuses. If there is no trouble recruiting, why are they so hell bent on keeping soldiers past their retirement age, why are they forcing them into extra and longer tours? Why are they giving immigrants a chance at citizenship by joining the army? Why are they recruiting gang members, allowing convicted felons in? These seem like things that would not be necessary if things were going all fine and dandy. |
No there isn't a mass exodus and the article does not state that there is. They are not meeting recruiting goals and one of the reasons they are not meeting recruiting goals is they are trying to increase the end force of the military as the end force has been raised by Congress.
They have always given legal immigrants a fast track to citizenship...this is not new. They do not knowingly enlist illegal immigrants. They are not accepting convicted felons but do now waiver certain misdemeanor. One may or may not be able to get a Presidential waiver for certain felonies (as one could during the second world war)...as I do not know if this has yet been reinstituted.
As for your other extraneous remarks...what ever floats your boat sport.