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WASHINGTON – The Army last year again increased the number of its recruits who have criminal records by granting them special exceptions.
The Pentagon’s top personnel official defended the policy, saying it’s so stringent that many in Congress would have difficulty getting into the military, too, because of things they did in their youth.
In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 18 percent of recruits needed the waivers – up from 15 percent the previous year, Maj. Gen. Thomas Bostick, commander of the U.S. Army Recruiting Command, told a Pentagon news conference. He said 87 percent of those were for misdemeanors such as joy riding or violating curfew.
The Associated Press
