Posted on 11/15/2011 7:31:03 AM PST by KeyLargo
The FBI Announces Gangs Have Infiltrated Every Branch Of The Military Robert Johnson | Oct. 22, 2011
The FBI has released a new gang assessment announcing that there are 1.4 million gang members in the US, a 40 percent increase since 2009, and that many of these members are getting inside the military (via Stars and Stripes).
The report says the military has seen members from 53 gangs and 100 regions in the U.S. enlist in every branch of the armed forces. Members of every major street gang, some prison gangs, and outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMGs) have been reported on both U.S. and international military installations.....
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Remember back in 2005-2007 when the U.S. military was stretched to the limit and the Iraq insurgency was at it’s peak? Rumsfeld and the Joint Chiefs issued the “stop-loss” orders, extended deployments, and most unfortunately, loosened recruitment standards. That gangs took advantage of those looser standards and are now infesting the military should come as no surprise to anyone. It’s yet another unintended consequence of that mucked-up war.
Bin Laden man in the Army
No problem. In a couple of years we’ll *all* have to join some sort of “gang” just to survive.
The fact that we are stretched thin is the reason WHY we must be more selective in recruitment, in the sense of excluding those people who make military life unattractive to good potential recruits, and who cause good men to want to not re-enlist.
Gays and Gangs, what a great combination. /s
As General Patton would have said, “Glad I didn’t live to see it.”
High school graduation? (able to read manuals a must)
No serious criminal record? (no to felons?)
That was when Bill Clinton was prez. I remember interviewing Dick Cheney about it back then.
roger that
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