According to an Army study, recruits with criminal, bad driving or drug record (therefore require special waivers to enlist) have more discipline problems and are more likely to drop out because of alcohol problems than those with a spotless record.
No surprise there, but this is interesting: those bad soldiers also earn more medals for valor, stay longer, and get promoted faster!
Gen. William Wallace, commander of the Army's Training and Doctrine Command at Fort Monroe, Va., dismisses the notion that waivers are creating more disciplinary problems in today's Army.
Instead, he said, when the Army brings in a young person who made a mistake and got past it, most likely "they will be a better person for having made that mistake and learned from it, than perhaps somebody who didn't make the mistake and didn't have the opportunity to learn."
Those who have the intellect to think "outside the box" do not do well in the service.
"According to an Army study, recruits with ...are more likely to drop out....
Then:
...those bad soldiers also .. stay longer.."
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