The Army has lowered its standards (again) for allowable candidates.  Pretty scary ... no wonder we can't "win" the war in Iraq.  Fred Kaplan over at Slate says - and I completely agree - this is a big problem in at least four ways:

1)  "It's not a good idea."

2)  "High-school dropouts tend to drop out of the military, too."

3)  "A dumber army is a weaker army."

4)  "Today's Army needs particularly bright soldiers - and it needs, even more, to weed out particularly dim ones."