Just The Sort Of Army We Need

Back when I was still wearing the Funny Green Tree Suit in the '80s, there was, as I recall, a certain amount of pride that the Army was finally meeting its recruiting needs without having to resort to CAT-IVs on the educational scale, nor any use for "moral waivers."  Well, those days are past us and the numbers of poorly educated and downright felonious troops are rising.  

What is particularly frightening about the increase in criminals is that they are quite likely to end
up preying not only on civilians in the war zones, thus blackening the National Eye even more (presuming that's possible) but may well prey on fellow soldiers, thus weakening morale (if that's possible, too) even more as well as wrecking unit cohesion.  This will result in "good" soldiers leaving and a requirement for even more of the morally challenged types to fill out the ranks.

Eventually you end up with an entire military composed of Dirty Dozen types - but without the happy movie ending.

A big hat tip to David Codrea for first pointing out the Dirty Dozen analogy.