Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Humorously enough, they're lessening every requirement involving aptitude, intelligence, or physical requirements etc, but sticking firm to anything approaching individuality.
Specifically; they've widened the ages that can serve, expanded re-enlistment options, loosened/removed post-retirement options, loosened/lowered physical requirements and exemptions, lowered testing requirements, loosened criminal record allowances and even some drug/alcohol related offenses.
However, you still can't serve if you're openly homosexual, and you can't re-up if you're discharged with an RE4 re-enlistment code (assigned to persons who claimed moral or rational objectivity while serving).
It slays me that the military is so hard up for any breathing body that they'll let in 50 year old retarded overweight felons with emphazema, but they'd rather talk about a draft than let someone back in who scored in the highest percentile on the ASVABs, has a college degree, is in good physical shape, is already trained in the fields they need, rated among the fastest advancements in service history during their original enlistment but is either gay or spoke up with reservations about following obviously unlawful orders during their previous elistment.
They'd rather have brain dead sloths than anyone with the slightest inclination to judge right from wrong.
*boggle*
