and to my freeper friends

if you're reading the wall street journal, you're a day behind the rest of us.

The WSJ says that the Army, in a desperate bid to keep manpower, has made it harder to for unit commanders to dismiss slacker soldiers. An Army memo told commanders that they need to go up the chain of command if they want to bounce GIs who are drug addicts, fat, or just loafers. Slate revealed the memo yesterday and also suggested alternatives for keeping retention rates up.

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