Friday, April 29, 2005

Are you a highschool dropout with a drug problem....

Well not to worry, there's always a place for you at the U.S. Army. As the Army continues to fail in meeting its' recruitment goals, they've gone from An Army of One to an Army of Anyone.

Highschool student, David McSwane, put recruiter tactics to the test just to see how far they were willing to go to increase enlistment. The 17 year old is both an Honors student and highschool journalist. He presented himself to a recruiter as being a drop-out with a marijuana drug problem. But this was not a problem for the recruiter, who offered to help him get a fake diploma and even offered to take him down to buy detox supliments to help him pass the drug test, which the recruiter was quoted as saying, "The two times I had the guys use it, it has worked both times."
(Click here to get more on this story at CBS4)