Posted on 02/25/2013 7:08:46 AM PST by Kaslin
“”Project 100,000 was initiated by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in October 1966 during American involvement in the Vietnam War and ended in December 1971.[2] Considered part of Johnson’s Great Society by giving training and opportunity to the uneducated and poor, the recruited men were classified as “New Standards Men” (or pejoratively the Moron Corps) and had scored in Category IV of the Armed Forces Qualification Test, which placed them in the 10-30 percentile range.[3] The number of soldiers reportedly recruited through the program varies, from more than 320,000[3] to 354,000, which included both volunteers and conscripts (54% to 46%).[2] Although entrance requirements were loosened, all the Project 100,000 men were sent through the normal training processes with other recruits, and performance standards were thus the same for everyone.[4]
The men recruited or drafted under this program did not receive the same training as other recruits and draftees after Basic Training was completed. Mr. McNamara and his “Whiz Kids” insisted that these men had to be put into virtually all fields, and this was a disaster.””
When I was following enlistments in the aftermath of 9/11, expecting the enlistment offices to be flooded with volunteers, it didn't happen, in fact female and black enlistments plummeted.
Although the needs were small, and the population huge, the military was having to lower standards and raise age limits out of desperation.
What you say is the honest truth.
The military, such as it is, is not conservative anymore. If we had to go a round with China, or any modern power, we couldn’t.
The men and women serving now are coming home broken, and no one cares.
Women will break the military and the VA system, already the VA is becoming female oriented, although women are still new to the military and only a tiny percentage of it.
The VA is becoming a creepy place anyway, I think that most veteran freepers who use the VA have learned to be very guarded and alert when dealing with them.
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