Army to Recruit High School Dropouts
Facing ever-increasing recruiting problems, and a death toll of U.S. soldiers of more than 1,900, the Army announced a big change today. It will now accept high-school dropouts who don't have GEDs:
Army recruiters now have a wider pool to find future soldiers in. The Army is reaching out to a slice of America’s youth long ineligible to serve: non-high school graduates who don’t have a General Equivalency Diploma. Recruiters can now go after that demographic through the “Army Educations Plus” option, the Army announced Tuesday.
The Army will pay for the cost of the GED. Of course, at the heart of the matter is the recruiters' failure to meet its goals:
....senior Army leadership has acknowledged that the active duty Army, Reserve and Guard will each miss their respective annual goals for fiscal 2005, which ends this month.
Once more, the military targets the poor and underprivileged. One of my clients just got his G.E.D. in the county jail while awaiting trial. At least he'll be alive to use it when he gets out.
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