Rap-sheet recruits fill a growing need
Rap-sheet recruits fill a growing need
Published: April 22, 2008
WASHINGTON — Under pressure to meet combat needs, the Army and Marine Corps brought in significantly more recruits with felony convictions last year, including some with manslaughter and sex crime convictions.
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Rice, Iraqi official seek Arab support
Iraq's top diplomat made a personal appeal Monday to mostly Sunni Arab neighbors nervous about the influence and intentions of Shiite Iran. His message was blunt: Iraq is no Iranian puppet and Arab states should make good on old promises to help Iraq regain its footing. The session came at the invitation of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, above, who visited Bahrain and Kuwait on Monday.
"When we first started this meeting today we had questions of the ambiguity of the picture in Iraq, the political picture,” said Bahrain's foreign minister, Sheik Hamad bin-Khalifa. "The secretary of state and our brother Hoshyar Zebari gave us very good explanations.”
Gates chides Air Force for clinging to past
Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday challenged the Air Force, whose leaders are under fire on several fronts, to contribute more to immediate wartime needs and to promote new thinking. Gates singled out the use of pilotless surveillance planes as an example of how the Air Force and other services must act more aggressively.
"Because people were stuck in old ways of doing business, it's been like pulling teeth,” Gates said of his prodding. "While we've doubled this capability in recent months, it is still not good enough.”
•WEATHER: Basra, Iraq: High of 98, low of 71, clear; Kabul, Afghanistan: 69, 50, cloudy; Kuwait: 98, 71, clear.
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