A Pentagon watchdog found that the Army and Navy failed to accurately calculate the number of recruits who scored low on military aptitude tests, a practice that risked circumventing legal limits and rules meant to govern enlistment quality.
The Army and Navy counted scores earned after enlistees attended their respective preparatory programs, the Future Soldier Preparatory Course and Future Sailor Preparatory Course, instead of the marks recruits received when they first signed up, a Dec. 11 report by the Department of Defense Inspector General said.
The report specifically discusses Category IV enlistments, which are recruits scoring in the 10th to 30th percentile on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, a battery of metrics used by the services to assess eligibility and recruit…
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