Posted on Oct 11, 2017
Army is accepting more low-quality recruits, giving waivers for marijuana to hit targets |...
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Recruitment is difficult during good economic times. Unemployment is around 4.5% and it is making recruitment more difficult. Wavers abound and bonuses are skyrocketing.
What are your thoughts? COL Mikel J. Burroughs
What are your thoughts? COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Army is accepting more low-quality recruits, giving waivers for marijuana to hit targets |...
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SPC Paul Tucker I personally don't think they should lower the standards due to this current issue. Maintain the standards, what about paying bonuses to combat veterans that were let go early due to force reductions to get number back up? Just a thought. What do you think Top Influencers?
SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSLSMSgt Minister Gerald A. "Doc" ThomasLTC Stephen F.SGT David A. 'Cowboy' GrothSFC George SmithCPT Jack DurishSSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4"PO1 William "Chip" NagelTSgt Joe C.SP5 Mark KuzinskiMaj Marty Hogan MSG (Join to see) SSgt (Join to see) LTC Stephen C. LTC (Join to see) SN Greg Wright Capt Seid Waddell Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS SSG Warren Swan
SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSLSMSgt Minister Gerald A. "Doc" ThomasLTC Stephen F.SGT David A. 'Cowboy' GrothSFC George SmithCPT Jack DurishSSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4"PO1 William "Chip" NagelTSgt Joe C.SP5 Mark KuzinskiMaj Marty Hogan MSG (Join to see) SSgt (Join to see) LTC Stephen C. LTC (Join to see) SN Greg Wright Capt Seid Waddell Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS SSG Warren Swan
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
IMHO, they should leave the standards the way the were, and I agree offer bonuses to more qualified personnel, may be able to retain top quality people that way.
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Maj Marty Hogan
Issue is deployment rotations vs what the civilian world is paying. Is for us in the Guard anyway. We have great people, but you can't keep sending them all over creation every few months. They have families and jobs that do without while they are gone as well. In this case- a kid that smoked some...well many before the zero tolerance rage hit had the same issue. Now if they are clean when they come to the table that is another story....
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If recruit manages to pass training, stay clean, stay out of trouble, and perform like a competent, disciplined soldier then what's the problem?
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I was in AF recruiting for a while and things would be wavered for three months and then it would shutoff as soon as it hit goals. However, I mean things like Home School Degrees, financial issues etc. Nothing egregious. I think that lowering the standards can become a slippery slope. We lower them to a point where we can't recover. We bring guys in that already have problems and then it becomes a problem for the commanders and SNCOs to deal with and ends up costing us more than it is worth just to make numbers.
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SPC Paul Tucker
I can agree. In my MOS, we had some of the most intelligent and tallented people that I have met in my lifetime. Most of them either had college degrees, graduate degrees, or already spoke multiple languages. Yet, they were enlisted linguists and not officers. Although, the retention was dismal. Linguists are so sought after and it is such a highly trained skill. The military cannot compete with the contractors offering six figures to an E-4.
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