An Army of Anyone

You need a high school diploma to enlist -- or a recruiter willing to bend the rules.

A A A Comments (2) By J. David McSwane Thursday, Sep 29 2005

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David McSwane with recruiter Sergeant Tim Pickel

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The Army will not come close to meeting its goal of getting 80,000 recruits by September 30. So at the same time the military talks about raising standards for recruiters, it might want to consider lowering its standards for recruits. Plenty of young men and women with drug issues and without high school diplomas would love to serve their country; so far, they just haven't found the right recruiter.

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pickel84@gmail.com 11/04/2011 7:01:00 AM

It is so sad that you say you want to make things better but in order to do that you lie cheat and fabricate situations to try and make the us military, the ones who fought to give useless people like you a chance to do such a story, look bad during a time when more and more people join just for free money. Instead of protecting ignorant unintelligent people such as yourself. You don't care about writing a story worthwhile you just want to try to push a liberal agenda that is the reason this country is in the shape its in now. Yes they messed up when the first recruiter did what he did but everyone knows you set the second recruiter up and out was your mommy who took you to the pipeline.you told more lies then every recruiter in all of your stories. Your no journalist your a loser with nothing better to do than than report useless information instead maybe telling some of the great things the military has done such as helping build schools and medical facilities and help terrorized countries stand on their own and build themselves up.