And some articles from Buzzflash...

[conuly]

One about recruiters encouraging kids to lie to get into the military.
One about images of coffins - and blacked out faces.
One on a 9/11 widow who could be deported.
Wiretaps in the US have increased 19%.
Another article about religion in the Air Force Academy.
The CIA can't hold ghost detainees at military prisons anymore.

Comments

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

The military has been doing that for at least 15 years that I can say I have fairly reliable information on...the lying to get in.

[phoenix-blue.livejournal.com]

True, but it's usually not quite as blatant as telling a potential recruit to get a fake diploma.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

You could always educate a person, a diploma doesn't mean one is smart or stupid.

But letting people in with drug problems, I think that's a bigger problem.

Maybe I'm biased seeing the trouble with drug users in the military -- I wonder what it would be like now with the people I knew THEN (as a dependent). They let my ex in, for example, and that was a disaster and a waste, I knew someone else thrown out, who was a drug user that got in, and there were suicide attempts and mental hospital stays and just LOTS of fun stuff with those who went in that I knew who were drug users, and a number admitted that they were told to lie. Or they'd mention drugs and the recruiter would say things like "I'm sorry, I didnt hear you, did you say something?" things like that.