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Tuesday, November 8, 2005

An Army of Dumb

Posted by on November 8 at 12:39 PM

Americablog points to this story from the Baltimore Sun on how the Pentagon made its recruitment quota for the month of October. Choice quote:

To achieve last month’s recruiting targets, 12 percent of those accepted by the Army had the lowest acceptable results. They scored between 16 and 30 points out of a possible 99 on an aptitude test that quizzes potential soldiers on general science, mathematics and word knowledge.

Good thing fighting wars isn’t, you know, challenging or anything.