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When i was 15 I got a burglary charge, since I was a juvenile all I got was 25 hrs community service, 2 letters of apology and a theft prevention class. I've spoken to a Marine Recruiter and as of right now they are not taking anyone with any kind of record juvenile or not. How long will it be till they change this type of policy back?
H Earl,
A burlary charge requires a waiver (see http://usmilitary.about.com/od/joiningthemilitary/a/moralwaivers.htm).
However, the Marine Corps is doing extremely well on recruiting for the past several months, and are far ahead of making their annual fiscal year recruiting goal (see: http://usmilitary.about.com/od/2009recruitingstatistics/a/aug.htm). This is probably due, in large part, to the very poor civilian job market.
From their point of view, why should they consider waivers, when they have enough people, lining up outside the door to join, who don't need waivers?
I expect this to continue, as long as the US unemployment rate remains high.
For more information about the US Military, feel free to visit my US Military Information website at http://usmilitary.about.com
Hope this helps!
Rod Powers
http://usmilitary.about.com
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Rod Powers is considered one of the premire experts about U.S. Military career information on the planet. He has more than 30,000 articles about U.S. Military career information on the About.com U.S. Military Careers Information website at: http://usmilitary.about.com. Additionally, he is the author of "ASVAB for Dummies," "ASVAB AFQT for Dummies," (available in Dec 2009), and "Veteran Benefits for Dummies," all published by Wiley Publishing. He is also the author of "Barrons' Guide to Officer Candidate School Tests," published by Barron's Educational Series.
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