TUI UNIVERSITY

Michael Jackson

SLP: Moral problems in the U.S. Army

ETH501: Business Ethics

Dr. Kimberley Loar

8 July 2009

Introduction The Company that I have chosen is the one that I have been employed in since November 1985. That Company is the United States Army. The Army has changed a lot since my 24 years. The biggest change I see these days is the quality of soldier that we are allowing to join the Army. When I took the test to come in the Army the Recruiter did not have the quotas that they have these days. The U.S. Army recruited more than 2,600 soldiers under new lower aptitude standards this year, helping the service beat its goal of 80,000 recruits. The Army recruited 80,635 soldiers, roughly 7,000 more than last year. Of those, about 70,000 were first-time recruits who had never served before. The moral problem is allowing soldiers to enlist, that under any other situation besides the war on terror would not be allowed to join the Army.
Utilitarian considerations
The recruiters have a job and obligation to put bodies in the Army and that they are doing. The Moral worth is meeting and exceeding the Army goal of 80,000 recruits.
Deontological Ethics
The Army has decided to give out Moral waivers that allow new recruits to enter the U.S. Army by lowering the standards that were set in place to recruit quality Soldiers. Recruiters are all about quantity over quality recruits because of the need for more soldiers due to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Today a person can come in the Army with a moral waiver that a couple of years could not have entered the military. Officially, the Pentagon states that most waivers issued on moral grounds are for minor infractions like traffic tickets. Yet it has been proven over and over that many of the offenses are more serious and include drunken driving and domestic