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fromBusiness Insider
3 days ago

Marine recruiters were under pressure to 'do more.' Some turned to forging signatures and faking documents.

Overall, 10 Marines who recruited in the region between 2018 and 2024 told Business Insider they faced a desperate struggle to hit their quotas of signing up two new recruits each month. Five admitted to taking shortcuts or falsifying records. The others said they knew fraud was happening within recruiting ranks. In 2021, all the leaders in one recruiting hub were relieved for fraud, or for failing to catch it, sources told Business Insider.
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fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago

US Army and Navy stretched the rules to misrepresent the academic qualifications of recruits, the inspector general says

Army and Navy counted post-preparatory-course test scores when classifying recruits, enabling them to exceed federal limits on low-scoring enlistees without required notification.
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