GI Schmo - How low can Army recruiters go? By Fred Kaplan

Fred Kaplan returns to form with: GI Schmo - How low can Army recruiters go? By Fred Kaplan

Three months ago, I wrote that the war in Iraq was wrecking the U.S. Army, and since then the evidence has only mounted, steeply. Faced with repeated failures to meet its recruitment targets, the Army has had to lower its standards dramatically. First it relaxed restrictions against high-school drop-outs. Then it started letting in more applicants who score in the lowest third on the armed forces aptitude test...

So if I'm reading this correctly, our high tech army requires high calibre recruits. Dim bulbs just don't catch on, and gunk up the works pretty badly. Now we are relying on dimmer and dimmer bulbs to meet recruiting targets. Great. Just great.