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Originally Posted by Peaches
Again, if you actually READ the article, it sure as hell doesn't look like they are "hurting for troops". When they start offering the "jail or military" option that they did decades ago, THEN start worrying. Letting someone in because they had sex with their girlfriend when they were a teen is hardly opening up the floodgates for hard core felons to start filling the ranks.
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I think you misunderstood his point (and assuming I *did* understand it), that they are loosening restrictions on enlisting because the U.S. is getting desperate to recruit more troops - it's not *who* they are letting in, just the fact that they are making it easer.
It's no secret there has been a shortfall of recruits for years and clearly they are trying new ways to get people to enlist. Loosening restrictions is just one of many tactics.
(Of course, the bad publicity over the "Stop-Less" idea doesn't help their case much)