If you lower the standards needed to get through boot camp, you'll get a softer army. Suppose that boot gets captured. Think his captor is going to do his best to see that he meets the terrorist's requirements? The very worst thing you can do for a recruit is to let him go on in the denial that makes him think the rest of the world behaves in the squishy limpwristed manner that the effete west does. The rest of the world pisses on the PC manners of the west, AND the Geneva Convention.
"If you lower the standards needed to get through boot camp, you'll get a softer army."
Who is lowering standards?
There just getting rid of the B.S. that was necessary when you have a conscripted Army or losers that "volunteered" because they could not get a job.
The kids who join now join to fight.
Having some DI play the same arbitrary, tired games just pisses self-motivated people off. It doesn't help them survive torture under Al Quada.