...at the same time!!
Double number of ex-cons join the US army | World news | The Guardian Military Waivers for Ex-Convicts Increase - washingtonpost.com
Just think. We can kill two birds with one stone by giving convicts a chance to be all they can be in the military services! Turn the prisons into military bases!
Eliminate prison costs and expand the "national security" budget at the same time by transferring inmates and the prison budget over to the military!!
Turn anti-social scumbags in "heroes" who are our "best and brightest" in one fell swoop!!
Find two million additional "recruits" over night! Never worry again about how to sustain two or even three imperial escapades at once!!
Recidivism is gone! Just call it "re-enlistment"!!
Cut down on training expenses! Plenty of these guys can already handle a gun and have experience in subduing urban populations by forcing them into hiding in their homes after nightfall!
"Stationing" hundreds of thousands of these brave "patriots" overseas for years at a time may seem cruel, but hey, we already do it with thousands of guys who didn't do anything wrong at all!! This might work for busted illegals too!
Capital punishment cases? No problem! Just put them on point!
I just don't see a downside here.
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