[2ndDivisionVet]

Who in their right mind would join right now anyhow?

[trebb]

“But it is true that the quality of military recruits right now is the highest it’s been in 40 years.”

I work with these recruits every day - if this is the highest quality in 40 years, then I've been asleep for the 39 years I've either worn the uniform (1974-1998) or worked a a civilian in training (1999-present).

[GATOR NAVY]

“It’s not that we have a zero defect mentality, because we don’t,” Nathan Christensen, a Navy officer in public affairs for the Defense Department, told the Kansas City Star.

That's not what the local Navy recruiter told me not too long ago. What he described was indeed "a zero defect mentality." A kid with any kind of black mark on his record wasn't even going to be considered.