Posted on Oct 28, 2015
25 charged in recruiting conspiracy fraud, your thoughts?
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The fact that this article comes from a conspiracy made in Puerto Rico makes it more embarrassing, however, I can't imagine what was going through these people's mind. You have people coming to you for help to join the Armed Forces and what do you do? You take advantage of them? Is sad what money pushes people to do in order to get a little more of it.
http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/crime/2015/10/22/25-more-charged-guard-recruiting-conspiracy-fraud/74411758/
http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/crime/2015/10/22/25-more-charged-guard-recruiting-conspiracy-fraud/74411758/
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I am only surprised that we do not see more of this. The military as a whole has been reduced to a lower standard because of the situations we have faced in the last 14 years. You cannot continue to lower the standards of enlistment and acceptance without expecting things like this to happen. I sadly believe, it was only a matter of time and it is likely not an isolated incident.
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CW3 Eric W. S. I hope they give them time to think they got it and then catch them by surprise.
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My question would be where was the leadership, and the oversight? Now I have never worked in recruiting, and I can see how for many it is kind of an island at least from looking from the out side in. But I have to believe that these are things that proper leadership, and oversight would have caught much earlier.
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1SG (Join to see) I would like to share the link that I read at first but is in Spanish, there were CPTs, policemen, people working with the PR Capitol and even Postal service! The total amount of the fraud was $6M divided by 26 people, even if the money wasn't divided equally, is a good amount each. Too sad they put a price on their morals.
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It happens all the time, if you ever get a chance to work on the contracting side of the military, something I did for a year while deployed, you will see a lot of temptation, and a lot of things that make you scratch your head. It is times like this that sound leadership is vital. It takes a great leader, to create the correct environment so corruption does not get a foot hold, and proper accountability is put into place to stop it in its tracks. At the end of the day we are still all part of our society. What I mean is that no amount of training is going to make everyone a perfectly moral person that is above temptation, their are plenty of cases were this has been shown to be true. We have to trust our soldier's to do the right thing, but leaders also have to understand that the right thing is not always going to happen, and they have to ensure that they have put into place a process to stop it.
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