The last thing the military and America and the countries we fight needs are to move hardened criminals from prison into our military.
Instead of the silly movies where America is looking for the ‘perfect killing machine’, our struggle is to identify and keep out sociopaths and psychopaths.
Corruption, thievery, murder, rape, wartime atrocities and massacres, pedophilia in war zones, black markets, spying, selling of national secrets, working backdoor deals with a battlefield enemy for profit, leadership based on personal deals, bribery, favoritism, trading rank for sex, disloyalty, laziness, lack of humility, lack of responsibility corrupt training schools operated and run by cons and criminals.
These are things we have to fight, for the rare criminal mind that gets through our psychological screening processes, we do not want to deliberately fill our military with them.
The characteristics of effective soldiers are almost entirely the opposite of criminals, that is why prisons are hell-holes populated by sick minds of dog-eat-dog impulses and our military manages to operate so smoothly and effectively while doing things that are so incredible, it is because of the quality of the individuals that make up the whole.
You have a point.