{"id":42259,"date":"2017-11-15T00:15:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T03:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=42259"},"modified":"2017-11-15T20:46:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T23:46:19","slug":"army-lifts-ban-on-drug-abusers-mental-health-self-mutilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/15\/army-lifts-ban-on-drug-abusers-mental-health-self-mutilation\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Lifts Ban on Drug Abusers, Mental Health, Self-Mutilation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>UPDATE<\/strong><\/span>: Army Chief of Staff Gen Mark Milley says the Army &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/army-no-waivers-for-self-mutilators-others-with-serious-mental-health-issues-1.497975\">has not and will not<\/a>&#8221; approve waivers for these conditions, saying the USA Today article &#8220;mischaracterized&#8221; the source documents.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In an effort to boost recruiting, the US Army has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/11\/12\/army-lifts-ban-recruits-history-self-mutilation-other-mental-health-issues\/853131001\/\">eliminated its ban on waivers<\/a> for potential Soldiers who may have a history of some mental illnesses and drug use:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Army&#8217;s decision to rescind the ban for a history of mental health problems is in part a reaction to its difficulties in recruiting, Ritchie said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You\u2019re widening your pool of applicants,&#8221; she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Awkwardly, that&#8217;s precisely the same reason given for eliminating the ban on another potential mental health issue: the confusion between one&#8217;s perceived and actual gender, or, more commonly, transgenderism.<\/p>\n<p>Lifting such bans naturally <!--more-->increases the potential pool of applicants.\u00a0 It also nearly guarantees that recruits of lower standards &#8212; and greater problems &#8212; will be recruited.<\/p>\n<p>But, if you&#8217;re going to say sexually confused people should be allowed to serve because they&#8217;re patriotic and self-sacrificial, plus it will open up a pool of recruits in a time in which the service is experiencing a shortfall, then you can&#8217;t very well deny these potential recruits <em>their<\/em> &#8220;right&#8221; to serve either, can you?<\/p>\n<p>Can you?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2017\/11\/13\/army-lifts-ban-on-cutters-mentally-ill-and-drug-abusers-to-meet-recruiting-goals.html\">FoxNews<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Army Chief of Staff Gen Mark Milley says the Army &#8220;has not and will not&#8221; approve waivers for these conditions, saying the USA Today article &#8220;mischaracterized&#8221; the source documents. In an effort to boost recruiting, the US Army has eliminated its ban on waivers for potential Soldiers who may have a history of some mental illnesses and drug use: [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[88,2,198,680,1278],"class_list":["post-42259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-military","tag-morality","tag-recruit","tag-transgender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}