As a former Army brat and Marine wife, and the mother of an autistic son, this makes me sick. I am a supporter of the military, but some of the recruiting practices are disgusting.
When I hit the "Yellow Footprints" at MCRD San Diego (forty years ago), I was in a group of probably 80...over the first few days, it was obvious that there were a half dozen (and none of these ended up with us for more than a handful of days) that NO Marine Corps recruiter should have let get that far; but these few did - and I'm sure it happened in every training platoon.