Getting people to join

The Army is meeting its recruiting goals, but how? By lowering the standards.

First they raise the age from 35 to 39. Then 40. Now it's 42 - all in the last year.

They lower the educational requirement: once a high school diploma was necessary; then it was "a high school diploma is most desirable. Candidates with a GED can enlist"; now it's not even a GED necessary - the Army will get the recruit the GED.

(That's how guys like Stephen Green, rapist and murderer, get in; he is a high-school dropout with multiple run-ins with the law.)

Now, they're talking about actively recruiting foreigners - not just green-card holders living in the US, but actual foreigners outside the US. Mercenaries, in other words, even if their price is American citizenship, not American gold.

In other words, despite their bragging that they met their December goals, the army is actually having a very hard time getting people to join. Are we surprised?