WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy is starting to enlist individuals who didn’t graduate from high school or get a GED, marking the second time in about a year that the service has opened the door to lower-performing recruits as it struggles to meet enlistment goals.
Yes, this is covered in the talk as well. In one example, an officer is killed by a macnamara man because he couldn’t tell him apart from the enemy, and another where a soldier couldn’t grasp the concept of throwing a grenade in a parabola over an obstacle rather than straight ahead.