DOD's screening system aims to find quality non-H.S. grads

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DOD's screening system aims to find quality non-H.S. grads


A wartime Army struggling to attract enough “quality” volunteers is enlisting additional thousands of high school dropouts using an experimental screening tool to identify those most likely to complete their enlistments.

The Two Tier Attrition Screen (TTAS) is an added “quality indicator” that officials hope will allow the Army to take in many more high school dropouts with greater confidence they won’t drive up attrition rates.

Years of research have shown that high school dropouts are more prone to be discipline problems in service and to be discharged early. The first-term attrition rate for nongraduates typically is 50 percent, almost double that of high school diploma graduates.
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=41811

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1. They would have no problem finding quality volunteers

if they gave them a quality reason to join.

Next time: try "defending their country". Just might work.

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2. So where's the 24 hour, non-stop screaming about how the DoD

hates the troops, for pointing out how they're uneducated?

(crickets chirping)