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Project 100,000, also known as McNamara's 100,000, McNamara's Folly, McNamara's Morons, and McNamara's Misfits, [1] [2] was a controversial 1960s program by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to recruit soldiers who would previously have been below military mental or medical standards.
Assessing Fitness for Military Enlistment: Physical, Medical, and Mental Health Standards. National Academies Press. 27 February 2006. ISBN 978-0-309-16487-0. Budahn, P. J. (30 September 2000). What to Expect in the Military: A Practical Guide for Young People, Parents, and Counselors. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-0-313-09521-4.
NNOMY was founded in 2004 in the aftermath of the national counter-recruitment conference "Stopping War Where it Begins" in Philadelphia. [1]It is intended to be a decentralized and flexible structure that helps national, regional and local activists and organizations by promoting communication efforts and by stimulating collaboration between network members.
Across the world, a large majority of recruits to state armed forces and non-state armed groups are male. The proportion of female personnel varies internationally; for example, it is approximately 3% in India, [1] 10% in the UK, [2] 13% in Sweden, [3] 16% in the US, [4] and 27% in South Africa.
A New VA Approach. SOME OF THAT hope comes from a leadership change at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).Matthew Miller, M.P.H., P.h.D., a clinical psychologist and Air Force veteran ...
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It further asserts that rejecting HIV-positive recruits “diminishes the strength of the U.S. military.” While enlistment across the armed services branches increased by 12.5% from 2023 to 2024 ...
Military personnel or military service members are members of the state's armed forces.Their roles, pay, and obligations differ according to their military branch (army, navy, marines, coast guard, air force, and space force), rank (officer, non-commissioned officer, or enlisted recruit), and their military task when deployed on operations and on exercise.