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Originally Posted by theking
Until recently their standards were quite high...but they do have...and have had...four tiers of enlistment requirements. When warm bodies are needed they reduce requirements to the fourth tier...but there is nothing new about that. All officers have degrees and many have masters and some have doctorates. Most senior NCO's have Associate Degrees...many have Bachelor Degrees...and some have graduate degrees. Until recently lower level personel were required to have Highschool Diplomas. Now GED's and less are acceptable...and some criminal convictions and medical conditions are being wavied...but during and since the 2nd World War this has been the case when warm bodies are needed.
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No, no, it's all NEW now.
Hell, there are issues with getting homeschoolers in. You know, those idiots who win the spelling and geography bees and are generally smarter than the average public school graduate. I THINK some of the branches are letting in small number now, but it's a VERY small number.
If someone was offered jail or the marines recently, then the courts were willing to drop the charge and the marines wouldn't have known about it as it would not have shown as an active felony on any records. In addition, the person who made that offer broke the law. But hey, let's blame it on the military who ended up with someone lying on their application and if they required any kind of security clearance and even Great Aunt Ethel mentioned anything about a possible jail sentence, the Marines would have done what they could have to tracked the info down and probably toss the guy out on his ass.
I have no idea was Vend was talking about - I'd have to hear it from him before I came right out and said he was delusional
But I can guarantee you something from Ven's mouth will always have more power with me than something from the mouth of those who only know about the military what they read and watch on TV playing armchair military members.