Someone needs to reclaim Army Standards

This goes with what I wrote the other day about problems in the military.

Reclaiming Army Standards
by: Brandon Friedman
Tue Jan 13, 2009 at 18:20:54 PM EST
The fact is, while the Army has been lowering its entrance standards with regard to education, physical fitness, and crime since the end of the Cold War, that process has accelerated since the invasion of Iraq. And this is something that the incoming Army Secretary should address.
The numbers are shocking when you actually see the scope of the issue:
Dr. Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer, points out that in 1992 98 percent of recruits had a high school diploma. By 2004, that number had fallen to 86 percent. In 2007, only 79 percent of Army recruits had completed high school. Whereas nearly everyone in the Army had a diploma 15 years earlier, by 2007, fewer than four out five soldiers did.





Standards
by: Brandon Friedman
Fri May 23, 2008 at 12:54:34 PM EDT
WTF is this?

This is a full-blown, four-alarm, Army-wide emergency as far as I'm concerned. I swear to God somebody needs to answer for this on Capitol Hill. The Defense Department, the Army, the generals. . .I don't care. Just somebody. This is a failure in leadership from top to bottom.

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