Army Ends Program to Help High School Dropouts
Monday, August 30, 2010

No longer in need of recruits, the U.S. Army is discontinuing a test project in which the service helped high school students earn their equivalency certificates so they could qualify to become soldiers.
Nearly 3,000 high school dropouts went through the GED pilot program that began in summer of 2008, at a time when the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan strained the capacity of the Army to provide enough soldiers for the fighting.
Nowadays, with the Iraq war winding down and the slumping economy making the military an attractive option for many high school graduates, the Army doesn’t need those without a diploma. In 2008, about 83% of those who enlisted in the Army were high school graduates. A year later, the rate was up to 94.6%.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
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