Jim Choate wrote:
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote:
It is clear that whatever ID procedures were in effect, they were not effective. Many enlistees lied about their ages and got away with it.
I have zero problem with that assertion.
However, lying about ones age and getting away with it is a far cry from not having any security/identity checks at all.
How do you figure? If I could lie about my age, seems to me I could lie about just about anything else, with the possible exception of sex. If I were going for a commission, or got roped into a high-security program that required background investigation, then I would need better backstopping than just a set of lies on an enlistment form, but as a plain old grunt nobody need ever know my name was NOT Michael J. McGillicuddy. Marc de Piolenc