Even more reason to know that Robert McNamara was one evil man. I had not heard of Project 100,000 before.
There is a lot information out there on Project 100,000. It ran from 1966-1972, over that period they accepted about 350,000 men. They did not meet the standards for the AFQT, or did not meet physical requirements. Now when you score below the standards for the AFQT what MOS are they going to put you in? At the time, McNamara was very proud of the program. They called the soldiers in the program: “New Standards Men.” Unfortunately, many of these New Standards Men were assigned to combat units. They had a death rate in Vietnam that was twice the rate of American forces as a whole. No surprises there.