Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Army Misses Goal, Lowers Standards

The Nation is reporting that the U.S. Army missed its yearly recruiting goal by about 7,000 recruits. As a result, it will double the number of Category IV recruits (those who score between the 16th and 30th percentile in the aptitude test) they will accept.

And in a bit of doublespeak truly worth noting, Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey insists they are not lowering their standards, but merely conforming to the guidelines suggested by the Department of Defense.
"They really weren't standards. They were just kind of guidelines," he said.

Okay, so they aren't lowering their standards, because they don't have any. Instead, they are implementing a lower suggested guideline, which will result in recruits who would have been rejected previously.

via HuffPost

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