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[theweaselking]

US Army recruiters caught illegally signing up the mentally handicapped.

The Guinthers are not political activists. They supported the Iraq war in the beginning but have started to question it as fighting dragged on. Brenda Guinther said that if her son Matthew had enlisted, she "wouldn't like it, but I would learn to live with it because I know he would understand the consequences."

But Jared doesn't understand the dangers or the details of what he has done, the Guinthers said.

When they asked Jared how long he would be in the Army, he said he didn't know. His enlistment papers show it's just over four years. Jared also was disappointed to learn that he wouldn't be paid the $4,000 signing bonus until after basic training.

During a recent family gathering, a relative asked Jared what he would do if an enemy was shooting at him. Jared ran to his video game console and killed a digital Xbox soldier and announced, "See! I can do it!"

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[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

Speaking as someone with a mentally handicapped relative, and who has spent time working with people with such handicapps, including autism, I would say that the recruiter recieving a dishonourable discharge is exactly the correct repsonse to this.