By Michelle Tan - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Jul 20, 2008 9:58:31 EDT
The Defense Department is going to implement standardized enlistment criteria and a simpler, more uniform way of reporting the types of waivers, including those for past bad behavior, given to new recruits across all the services.
Despite the new guidelines, each service may determine how it wants to apply waivers to new recruits, said Bill Carr, deputy undersecretary of defense for military personnel policy. The new guidelines are designed to give the Pentagon a better way to report and analyze the number and types of waivers given to new service members and how those recruits perform during their careers.
In the past, each service categorized offenses differently, making it almost impossible to conduct reliable research with the data, Carr said.
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