What does a drill sergeant do if a recruit arrives at the recruiting depot then realizes what he's gotten himself into and refuses to participate and demands to be sent home?

[nearwildheaven]

“McNamara’s Morons” was a thing during the Vietnam era - inducting people who definitely wouldn’t have made it if the standards were higher. I started a thread about it a while back, when I heard about it.

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…