Army and Marine Corps have sharply raised the number of recruits with felony con

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Due to the fact that the Army & Marine Corps are having problems meeting numbers, they are allowing more and more felons into the service. My husband was going to be a Marine and decided not to . When the recruiter was schmoozing us he did talk about felons in the Marine Corps. HE told us that for many of his recruits he would go into the Judge's chambers and ask for a stay of conviction so that the recruit could get into the Corps with a clean record. If the recruit broke his commitment, he would have to be convicted of the crime and serve jail time. To me, that is even scarier. So the person you have to trust to protect your back may have done some major damage to someone else, but they are suppose to protect you. You don't even know they are a felon unless they told you. Per the article "Army with felony records jumped from 249 in 2006 to 511 in 2007. And the number of Marines with felonies rose from 208 to 350". This doesn't include those people who got out of their punishment by joining the service. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351994,00.html Is this fair to current members with clean records? Do you feel that this makes being in the service a less honorable position?