And you think recruitment waivers don't cause problems?

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Read on.


Suspect soldiers: Did crimes in U.S. foretell violence in Iraq?
Posted on Friday, July 11, 2008
By Russell Carollo | Sacramento Bee

Before Army Sgt. 1st Class Randal Ruby was accused in Iraq of beating prisoners and of conspiring to plant rifles on dead civilians, he amassed a 10-year criminal record in Colordao and Washington state for assaulting his wife and in Maine for a drunken high-speed police chase, for which he remains wanted.

Before Lance Cpl. Delano Holmes stabbed an Iraqi private to death, angering the soldier’s unit of coalition soldiers, he was hospitalized after threatening suicide in high school, accused of assault, disorderly conduct and trespassing, and, in the months leading up to deployment, twice linked to drug use.

Before Army Spc. Shane Carl Gonyon was convicted of stealing a pistol at Abu Ghraib prison, he was convicted twice on felony charges and arrested four times, once for allegedly giving a 13-year-old girl marijuana in exchange for oral sex. He enlisted weeks after his release from a federal prison in Oregon.

A yearlong examination of military and civilian records by The Sacramento Bee involving hundreds of troops who entered the services since the Iraq war began identified 120 cases of people whose backgrounds should have raised the suspicions of military recruiters, including felony convitions and serious drug, alcohol or mental health problems.

Of those, 70 later were involved in controversial or criminal incidents in Iraq.


Rest of article at: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/43999.html

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1. Blowback from lowering recruiting/military entry reqs to meet recruiting quotas? nt

[NYVet]

2. 70 people out of how many tens of thousands of people who have enlisted?

EVERY profession has people who make the majority look bad. The military is no different.
I am sure that if I took a year and investigated every doctor, teacher, journalist or lawyer who entered their chosen profession, I could find as many or more people who put their profession in a bad light.




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