Comments on: Military Lowers Standards To Fill Ranks

The Army Is Taking Chances On Recruits With Rap Sheets

[adian1-2009]

Instead of lowering the standards, why don't the miiitary rises payment and benefits for soldiers? After all, aren't our soldiers forced to fight wars so that a few oil industry profiteers and weapons manufacturers fill their pockets with billions? Then, tax those guys the fair way and you'll have enough money to pay decently to our soldiers, at least while they stay alive. Because there is another truth: there is no corporate profit that pays for the loss of life of even one of our soldiers. Problem is that wars are declared by politicians, but are fought by the people.

[beadazzle]

What's next,now we have gangs in the military,oh God help save us all. Are any of them the MS13 gang memebers? Am i going to live to see another stage in history that copies tv,in where we will be over runned with gangs telling us what we can and cannot do.

How much of our military secrets are being used by these gangs to further their attempts to take over cities? Sending prisoners is not the answer and i'm not sure what the answer is,but what I do know is if we americans don't get off our lazy ***** and fight the goverment on our turf now,what will america be like in the next 50 to 100 yrs?
Slowly I'm seeing people revolting in their own little ways to fight back the goverment and their policies,whether it be the lady who hates bush or the militia or anyone else who has a voice,we should speak out and we should do whatever it takes to get our goverment back on track FOR THE PEOPLE.

[timincal]

Take ALL the hardened criminals out of our prisons, load them on planes, take them to Afghanistan, Drop them off.Throw out weapons and ammo as you leave.Before you do tell them that you have created a place in Israel called "home free". If they can make it trough Afghanistan,Iran,Iraq Syria and Saudi Arabia alive they can come home free. Let the Moslem's deal with them.

[bobgee_1999]

"...then why don't you go down to the recruiter's office and raise your right hand. I did."

Will my middle finger suffice? Turn their lives around? Yeah, why be a shoplifter or pothead when you can be a murderer, officially sanctioned by the U.S. government?

And as for "fishingbabe," if your son's lifelong dream was to be in the military then he should have stayed out of jail, shouldn't he? Hardly surprising, though, raised by a mother that refers to herself as a "babe." People wonder why kids become criminals---because people like you think that just having a crotch entitles you to squirt your offspring onto the rest of us. Now you want to unload him on the taxpayers and the military. Sounds to me like you both need to take responsibility for your own actions and live with the consequences.

[superdem]

fishingbabe - I can't believe you call yourself a concerned mother when you are ACTIVELY TRYING to get your son into a hot war zone ! The whole country is trying to get their kids OUT, and you are trying to get your kid IN ! Horrific wars in stinking pits like Iraq with bombs exploding and bullets flying are NOT therapy for kids who can't behave themselve in the United States. War doesn't "fix" people, it breaks them - haven't you read about the vets coming back who can't get the mental health care they need after seeing all the death and destruction, they can't sleep, they can't trust people, they get divorced, they depend on substances, they lose jobs, they have every sort of problem and then some. NOT ALL - not by any means, but a great many. I've never served but I remember this very issue in Viet Nam days. War destroys some peoples' hold on reality. If you love your kid, don't send him to war !

[terrythr]

If you don't like the fact that we are offering these young people the chance to turn their lives around and don't think it is safe to send them in to a combat zone, then why don't you go down to the recruiter's office and raise your right hand. I did.

[purocabron1]

And yet, we still have "Don't ask, don't tell"

[lstray]

why not let them serve? going to war is an honorable service to your country...better they die in war then in a gang battle in your neighborhood. everyone deserves a second chance.

[gwalsh3rd]

Great whats next, why dont we just recruit right
out of prison. We can send in convicted killers
who have nothing else to loose, if they go to Iraq and kill some taliban fighters then we can
pardon them

[citizenusa-2009]

Well, this means Jenna and Barbara Bush can go now! Rock on!