High school diplomas are meaningless. The switch to standardized testing is actually raising the bar.
It will be deemed racist and dropped.
It will be easier to dumb down the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) test to get the results you want. A standardized test is only as good as the content of the test and its metrics.
Why can’t the prerequisite of a HS diploma /GED continue to be used with the test? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why this change is being made. They want to broaden the recruitment net because they can’t meet their goals.
Physical standards for elite units are being changed to recruit more women. We have a woke military that values DEI more than winning wars.