9 Marine recruiters punished in cheating scam

[unhappycamper]

9 Marine recruiters punished in cheating scam
The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Nov 1, 2007 7:28:38 EDT

HOUSTON — The military has punished nine Marine Corps recruiters who arranged for stand-ins to take armed services entrance exams for new enlistees.

The cheating was made public Wednesday, though Capt. John Niemann, a spokesman for the local recruiting district, said officials at the Military Entrance Processing Station in Houston noticed in April that signatures of test takers didn’t match those on enlistment forms.

“I don’t know why this happened here. Obviously, we do not tolerate it,” Niemann said. “We learned of it. We investigated it and took appropriate disciplinary action.”

One offender was discharged from the service while the remaining eight were reassigned and given nonjudicial punishments, which could include fines and demotion.

The military would not release the names of the recruiters. Four of them were based in Memorial City, one in Lake Jackson, one in Baybrook and two in Houston.

“The bottom line is that it is all cleaned up,” Niemann said.


Rest of article at: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2007/11/ap_marinecheat_071101/



uhc comment: Since the recruiting scandal is 'all cleaned up', we shouldn't see anymore recruiting scandals. If you believe that, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell ya.

[Freedomofspeech]

1. This whole country is so out of control...

I think it's called the trickle down effect.