Under aged drinking rap is a felony now? Wow.
I guess it matters what you do when drinking, huh? These articles are written to hurt morale, recruiting and the image of the military in the eyes of the public. Search it and you'll find the first few dozen hits bring up these disparaging stories.
If you will follow the link above you will find that the Army alone enlisted 175,000 Soldiers in 2006. According to the story 906 felony waivers were given and some recruits got more than 1. Let's say that all 906 were given individually. That means that a fraction of 1% percentage point of those recruits have felony waivers.
Agenda anyone?