[Army_of_One]

Originally Posted by TexKan

Well I understand that - but all that does is show our age Detector!!!........... AOO is too young to have experienced all that!....... i think I had a few wayward individuals in my BT as well............. course lots of times they made it thru basic but bombed out in AIT - at which time they went to jail........... if not they "saw the light" made it thru AIT and often times stayed and became career soldiers....... that wasn't a bad program actually........ course kids and crimes were different then...... but I think that's where things like Scared Straight came from....... same concept sorta!

It's a bit different now days because of the security levels and such. Many of our jobs now have a security level requirement and there are A LOT of things that will cause you to not qualify for certain security levels...even having too much credit card debt can disqualify you even if you have never broken a law. People slip through the cracks and in meritorious cases we do let people in with "oh shi*'s in their back ground. I have a kid now that had a low level felony 12 years ago but since then has gotten his degree and doesn't even have a speeding ticket on his record. He has to have charactor references, and a lot of other stuff but he will probably get in the Army...granted he won't hold any type of security clearance.