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Violations Committed by Military Recruiters Increase by 50%

HeadlineAug 15, 2006

A new government report has determined that the number of alleged violations committed by military recruiters has increased by 50 percent over the past year. The Government Accountability Office launched its investigation of recruiters after an Army recruiter in Houston threatened to arrest a young man if he didn’t drop by the recruiting station. Last week two recruiters in Oregon were disciplined after they tried to sign up an autistic teenager from Portland.

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