Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Five Former Marines Punished For Fraudulently Enlisting Recruits

What do you do when you are under pressure to find recruits to fight in Irag and Afghanistan? If you are a Marine, you follow your superiors' orders by finding stand-in substitutes to take a military entrance exam for potential recruits who might not otherwise qualify for service.

Five former Marine recruiters were punished for fraudulently enlisting recruits from the Houston area said they were part of a web operating with tacit approval of some superiors.

The men confirmed they helped would-be recruits sneak past an exhaustive test by using a tactic established before they'd joined the Corps, served in Iraq or hit the streets as recruiters.


One question: Who will punish their superiors?

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