Some standards were in fact reduced or ignored by recruiters.
Late during the war (67 to 75) and for a lot of years after we wound down in country operations, the queers and cowards figured out how to work the draft numbers system.
A lot of recruiters were willing to take anything that had a pulse and could take a breath of air; not right, but it happened.
This POS was just one of the crapper scrapings that a recruiter needed to make his quota.
97 % of us were there because we felt it was our duty to our country.
Some standards were in fact reduced or ignored by recruiters.
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Don’t forget MacNamara’s 100,000.....
I understand it got so bad in USMC boot camp that once they kicked out 15% of a Recruit Company they could kick out no more.
For a while some druggies enlisted thinking they could go to SE Asia and become drug kingpins....
Where there is a will, there better be a body....<: <: