Felons In The Military

[KELLYG]

Thank you guy's for this usefully information.. I was wondering if your wives or daughters were serving in the military would you want them to them to serve along side people that were convicted felons of sexual assault??

 

[Big Don]

No Don, and you can stop with the stupid strawmen anytime you want.

Calling you on lies is hardly using strawmen.

What I'm talking about is the "individual augmentee" policy of taking people from the Navy and Air Force whether they volunteer or not and sticking them in the infantry. This isn't the "Blue to Green" program that started a couple years ago. It's a newer policy of filling holes in the Army and Marines with people from other branches of the Service because not enough qualified warm bodies can be found who will willingly volunteer. At least one Navy officer has very publicly resigned a commission because of the deception.

Except the individual augmentee program has been around for DECADES, all US Navy Corpsmen in Marine units are individual augmentees, as are all members of the military seconded to NASA.

The Army and Marine Corps can not get enough people to serve willingly.

Except, the Army exceeded its fiscal 2007 recruiting goal.

Active duty recruiting. All of the active duty services met or exceeded their recruiting goals for the month of September. The Navy’s recruiting goal was 4,818, and it enlisted 4,886 (101 percent). The Marine Corps’ goal was 3,694, and it recruited 3,738 (101 percent). The Air Force goal was 2,682, and it recruited 2,771 (103 percent). The Army's goal was 8,365, and it recruited 8,710 (104 percent).

Active duty retention. The Army, Air Force and Marine Corps exceeded their annual retention goals. The Navy achieved 91 percent of its mid-career goal.
Reserve forces recruiting. Three of the six reserve components, Army Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve and Air Force Reserve, exceeded their September recruiting goals. The latter two also exceeded their goals for the fiscal year...
Except you continue to state things that just are not true...

To fill the gap they are making all hitches basically lifetime affairs. The Reserves and Guard are being used in ways they haven't since at least WWII. Standards are declining precipitously. The amount we have to bribe them to sign up is truly amazing. [/quote] Incentives are not bribes. [FONT=arial, helvetica, swiss]bribery
n. the crime of giving or taking money or some other valuable item in order to influence a public official (any governmental employee) in the performance of his/her duties. Bribery includes paying to get government contracts (cutting in the roads commissioner for a secret percentage of the profit), giving a bottle of liquor to a building inspector to ignore a violation or grant a permit, or selling stock to a Congressman at a cut-rate price. [/FONT]Law.com legal dictionary.

But they still won't go. One way to fill the gap is to cannibalize the other Services and destroy their readiness and structure in the process. It can not continue forever. And the damage it is doing to the United States Armed Forces is terrible.

You continually mix in lies with opinion and then whine when you get called on it.

 

[Lisa]

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