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Home Front: WoT
About those waivers for recruits ....
2008-04-30
MSM shouts 'desperation' re: waivers for recruits with some trouble in their background.

But the military studied this, as it does so many things, and concluded it's worth taking a chance on these kids.
Posted by:lotp

#7  You can find anything you want at ALICE'S RESTAURANT > "Mother-rapers...Father-stabbers ...Pimps Killers and BankRobbers...they all moved away from him when told he was arrested for littering".

D *** NG IT, BOY, WE DON'T LIKE YOUR LITTERIN' KIND IN THIS MAN'S ARMY!
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-04-30 20:05  

#6  The stats are less than a percentage point in most cases...not newsworthy....I liked the disengenuous headline though.
Posted by: Broadhead6   2008-04-30 16:11  

#5  If you're going to look at the backgrounds of the journalists, make sure to look wherever it is that charges Daddy got dropped because he had drinks with someone at the country club are filed.
Posted by: trailing wife    2008-04-30 15:28  

#4  Wonder what background investigations on our MSM watch dogs would turn up? You know, if only in the interests of making sure someone is watching the watch dogs.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2008-04-30 13:54  

#3  I think a lot of juvenile delinquents are risk-takers by nature. The military adds structure and channels their risk-taking instincts into productive, or destructive, ends, depending on how you look at it.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2008-04-30 12:29  

#2  Arlo Guthrie was rejected for military service because he had been arrested for littering.
The MSM again is trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2008-04-30 11:56  

#1  Interesting stats, but I wonder how many are from single parent families? My ex-brother-in-law was a juvenile delinquent without any direction, with an alcoholic mother overwhelmed when her husband left her with four boys in the 60's and 70's. He made an E-8 as an enlisted man, the military giving him the discipline and sense of belonging he never had. He'd have been living on the streets or in prison if it wasn't for the training he got in the Army.
Posted by: Thealing Borgia6122   2008-04-30 11:15  

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