LOL...Army lowers it's standards AGAIN

[lima33doc]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080827/D92QJ8GO0.html

Seems the Army has decided to take HS Drop Outs and send them to prep school. According to the article, 3 out of every 10 ARMY candidate is not able to be recruited. That's pretty sad when the Corps ALWAYS makes its recruiting numbers and have NEVER lowered their standards.

[Trapper]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080827/D92QJ8GO0.html

Seems the Army has decided to take HS Drop Outs and send them to prep school. According to the article, 3 out of every 10 ARMY candidate is not able to be recruited. That's pretty sad when the Corps ALWAYS makes its recruiting numbers and have NEVER lowered their standards.
May have something to do with the 120k Marines vs couple hundred k army...?

[V8403]

May have something to do with the 120k Marines vs couple hundred k army...?

Yes Trapper I think you are right and from what I just read also you would fall over.

In order to meet recruitment targets, the Army has even had to scour the bottom of the barrel. There used to be a regulation that no more than 2 percent of all recruits could be "Category IV"—defined as applicants who score in the 10th to 30th percentile on the aptitude tests. In 2004, just 0.6 percent of new soldiers scored so low. In 2005, as the Army had a hard time recruiting, the cap was raised to 4 percent. And in 2007, according to the new data, the Army exceeded even that limit—4.1 percent of new recruits last year were Cat IVs.

http://www.spartacuslives.org/node/19808

[gunga55]

Didn't they make a movie already about that staring Danny Devito.