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To: Enlightened1

This experiment was tried before and it failed. From Wikipedia”

“Project 100,000, also known as McNamara’s 100,000, McNamara’s Folly, McNamara’s Morons, and McNamara’s Misfits,[1][2] was a controversial 1960s program by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to recruit soldiers who would previously have been below military mental or medical standards. Project 100,000 was initiated by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in October 1966 to meet the escalating workforce requirements of the U.S. government’s involvement in the Vietnam War. According to Hamilton Gregory, author of the book McNamara’s Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War, inductees of the project died at three times the rate[1] of other Americans serving in Vietnam and following their service had lower incomes and higher rates of divorce than their non-veteran counterparts. The project was ended in December 1971.[3]”


15 posted on 01/26/2024 6:12:34 AM PST by Bruce Kurtz
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To: Bruce Kurtz

Why else the massive amount of illegal males being allowed in? Planned War. Our military shortage is appalling, ….the planned use of illegals inducted to our military solves two of Biden’s obstacles-it replenishes our military for war, and insures these troops will have no reservations firing upon US citizens should they be called upon to quell the huge civil unrest ( and rebellion) that is coming.

Let’s hope Abbot, and now the 24 states supporting him will not back down, will mobilize their NG and law enforcement AGAINST any Federally ordered troops or .gov agencies ordered into those States.

Civil War on the horizon? To early to tell, but a certainty if blood will be spilled.
Good to see Texas finally leading the charge against senile Joe, my friends from Texas all support his actions, up to and including the use of arms.


39 posted on 01/26/2024 7:20:37 AM PST by delta7
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To: Bruce Kurtz

The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War, inductees of the project died at three times the rate[1] of other Americans serving in Vietnam and following their service had lower incomes and higher rates of divorce than their non-veteran counterparts. The project was ended in December 1971


I must be the exception to the above. HS drop out, 17, sent to Vietnam as an infantryman (survived), got out completed high school then on to college, got married stayed married 54 years (and still counting), worked and then retired with no debt and a comfortable nest egg.

Some 17 year olds drop out of school because they are bored.

I did learn not to make hasty decisions when bored.


41 posted on 01/26/2024 7:26:44 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: Bruce Kurtz

Even more reason to know that Robert McNamara was one evil man. I had not heard of Project 100,000 before.


44 posted on 01/26/2024 7:50:32 AM PST by Freee-dame
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