Nbadan
10-04-2005, 01:09 PM
The Army's top official says the service will revise its recruitment qualifications to allow enlistment of more high school drop-outs and those who scored lower on mental qualification tests, but denied the move was a lowering of standards.
Army Secretary Noel Harvey, along with Gen. Richard Cody, vice chief of staff, told a gathering of the annual Association of the U.S. Army the service would revert to lower Department of Defense entrance requirements. The Army had been using higher recruiting standards, but has faced chronic enlistment shortfalls - the worst since 1979, the early years following the Vietnam War.
DoD "standards on qualification tests call for at least 60 percent Category 1 to 3 and 4 percent Category 4," the lowest end, Harvey said. "The other services follow that standard and the Army National Guard always followed it as well. But the active Army chose a standard of 67 percent in Categories 1-3, and 2 percent Category 4."
Now, however, the Army will adopt the lower Pentagon standards.
Voices Magazine (http://www.voicesmag.com/Archives/News/oct2005/army_denies_lowering_standards_100405.htm)
See, there is hope for Bush apologists like Vashner to get into the Army after all.
Just what this country needs, a bunch of Whott's with M-16s guarding people with the flu.
:hat
Army Secretary Noel Harvey, along with Gen. Richard Cody, vice chief of staff, told a gathering of the annual Association of the U.S. Army the service would revert to lower Department of Defense entrance requirements. The Army had been using higher recruiting standards, but has faced chronic enlistment shortfalls - the worst since 1979, the early years following the Vietnam War.
DoD "standards on qualification tests call for at least 60 percent Category 1 to 3 and 4 percent Category 4," the lowest end, Harvey said. "The other services follow that standard and the Army National Guard always followed it as well. But the active Army chose a standard of 67 percent in Categories 1-3, and 2 percent Category 4."
Now, however, the Army will adopt the lower Pentagon standards.
Voices Magazine (http://www.voicesmag.com/Archives/News/oct2005/army_denies_lowering_standards_100405.htm)
See, there is hope for Bush apologists like Vashner to get into the Army after all.
Just what this country needs, a bunch of Whott's with M-16s guarding people with the flu.
:hat