Project 100,000: The Pentagon drafted mentally disabled men for Vietnam
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The story of how men were aggressively recruited and pushed through training without having met even the minimum of standards set for them.
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McNamara's Folly: Lowering the Standards to Fill the Ranks
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Inside the Pentagon's shameful effort to draft mentally disabled
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