American soldier crosses into North Korea

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Several years ago, I heard about “McNamara’s Morons”, where the IQ required for military enlistment declined drastically, and the character “Zero” in the “Beetle Bailey” comic strip was inspired by this.

McNamara's Morons, aka Project 100,000 (recruiting mentally challenged people during Vietnam)

I had never heard of this until last night; in short, during the Vietnam era, and to a lesser extent in the Iraq/Afghanistan era, the military lowered their standards to a point where people with significantly subnormal IQs were admitted into the military, and usually given KP or other noncombat duties, if they made it through boot camp at all. Here’s a 36-minute speech from someone who wrote a book about it. [McNamara's Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War] If you…