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    Army lifts ban on cutters, mentally ill and drug abusers to meet recruiting goals

    -Facing low recruitment levels, the U.S. Army quietly lifted its ban on allowing people with a history of mental illness, self-mutilation and drug abuse to serve in the military – despite warnings from the industry about the risks involved.

    The new rules green-light recruits who have bipolar disorder, depression and issues with cutting – a process in which a person takes a knife or razor to his or her own skin – along with those who bite, hit or bruise themselves intentionally.

    “I am shocked,” Craig Bryan, executive director of the National Center for Veterans Studies at The University of Utah, told Fox News. “This contradicts everything we have been working toward for the past 10-to-15 years.”

    Bryan says there is strong evidence to indicate self-injury is a “stepping stone to suicide” and is “the single strongest predictor of suicidal behavior.”

    The Army signed off on the new policy in August but never announced it, according to USA Today, which first reported the news.

    The decision to lift restrictions comes as the military looks like it will miss its goal of recruiting 80,000 new soldiers through September 2018...

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017...ing-goals.html

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    This seems kind of strange with Trump at the helm. Doesn't seem like something he would agree with.

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    Whuh? I thought the lifting the ban on gays was supposed to take care of that?

    Would have been better if they brought back the draft (easy for me to say since I am well beyond draft age )
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    Quote Originally Posted by victoryword View Post
    Whuh? I thought the lifting the ban on gays was supposed to take care of that?

    Would have been better if they brought back the draft (easy for me to say since I am well beyond draft age )
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    Army Rescinds Waiver Program for Self-Mutilating Recruits
    By Jonah Bennett Published on November 16, 2017
    https://stream.org/army-rescinds-wai...ting-recruits/

    The Army has decided to abandon plans to issue waivers to recruits with a history of self-mutilation or other mental health problems.

    Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said Wednesday to reporters that a September waiver memo, first reported on by USA Today, had been dropped after "terrible" messaging of the policy. However, Milley maintained the memo did not constitute a real change in policy, but rather delegated the ability to issue waivers to a lower authority — from Army headquarters to Army Recruiting Command.

    "There wasn't a change in policy," Milley said, according to USA Today. "There cannot be a change in policy by someone who doesn't have the authority to change policy. I know it sounds circular."

    However, Army officials previously told USA Today that the ban on issuing waivers, which was first imposed in 2009 after a spate of troop suicides, had been lifted....





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