Lets git ‘er done, folks!
Posted on 11/13/2017 10:50:31 AM PST by jazusamo
The U.S. Army quietly relaxed standards over the summer to allow potential recruits to receive waivers for a host of previous mental health issues — including self-mutilation.
A 2017 recruiting goal of 80,000 new soldiers through September appears to be at the root of a decision to reverse a 2009 waiver ban on mental health issues. Documents obtained over the weekend by USA Today show a willingness to consider applicants with a history of bipolar disorder, depression, and drug and alcohol abuse.
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Raise the bar....not lower it.
Some depressed whacko with a hand grenade is not a good idea.
That guy in Texas was Air Force.
I don’t get it.
There’s no shortage of willing and qualified recruits.
This must be a statistical way to reach more minorities and women.
Just when I think things can’t get crazier..
Insane.
They don’t enough vets committing suicide each year?
That guy in Texas was Air Force. How does Trump even let this stuff go public much less approve?
I’d never go to war with someone who can’t cope.
Allowing the mentally ill into combat will get our people killed.
Exactly! You’d think these geniuses would have learned something from the Devin Kelley’s, Bowe Bergdahl’s and Bradley Manning’s.
Apparently no concern about the suicide rate. I dunno, has there been a link established between depression and suicide? /sarc
I had a history of depression when I joined the Marine Corps in the late ‘80s. In fact, that’s probably WHY I joined.
Expect a wave of new PTSD claims.
Oh, Dear God!
As a lifelong NCO, we had enough trouble dealing with the nuts that WEREN’T already documented.
SO glad I’m retired......
Lets git ‘er done, folks!
Don’t forget the whacko doctor at Ft. Hood.
That was a terrorist attack.
This is the second announcement of taking in the military people with mental illness. The first was that not withstanding an X or Y chromosome making one a particular sex, disillusion mentally ill see themselves as the opposite sex or some other animal. That was ok— This is no surprised for a military more ready for political correctness that defending the nation.
The lifting of a ban against certain medical and mental infirmities is on a par with allowing Islamic Jihadist Muslims to enlist.
Johnny Rivers Lyrics:
“The Snake”
On her way to work one morning
Down the path along side the lake
A tender hearted woman saw a poor half frozen snake
His pretty colored skin had been all frosted with the dew
“Poor thing,” she cried, “I’ll take you in and I’ll take care of you”
“Take me in tender woman
Take me in, for heaven’s sake
Take me in, tender woman,” sighed the snake
She wrapped him all cozy in a comforter of silk
And laid him by her fireside with some honey and some milk
She hurried home from work that night and soon as she arrived
She found that pretty snake she’d taken to had been nevived
She clutched him to her bosom, “You’re so beautiful,” she cried
“But if I hadn’t brought you in by now you might have died”
She stroked his pretty skin again and kissed and held him tight
Instead of saying thanks, the snake gave her a vicious bite
“I saved you,” cried the woman
“And you’ve bitten me, but why?
You know your bite is poisonous and now I’m going to die”
“Oh shut up, silly woman,” said the reptile with a grin
“You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in.
Oh yeah, the shrink muzzie terrorist Nidal Hasan.
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