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A qualification test should have a substantial failure rate -- or else what the heck are we testing? And the ASBAB testing cut-off should be hard. Weapons systems are continually growing in complexity. The nature of "small war" deployments pushes down significant responsibility -- and requirements for exercise of judgment -- to the squad and even fire-team level. The days in which repetitive training, and close supervision, could make a useful soldier out of a person of marginal intelligence are long gone.

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Already posted earlier this afternoon...

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