Military Recruiting and Moral Waivers - If You Ain't Gay, There's a Way!

Let's not pretend that this is only an Army problem. I've seen this type of thing in the Air Force as well. If a recruiter from any branch is in a notoriously difficult area to recruit from, he/she will eventually fell pressure to meet the quota and some will do anything to meet that quota.
I have seen kids come with waivers for criminal records (drugs, assault), education (flunked out of high school), learning disability (kid couldn't read. He sent to Sylvan) and various other things.
In each of the last 5 years I have seen kids come in that could never get a security clearance. Unfortunately, my career field requires a clearance. They are useless to us without one.
Let's not kid ourselves here.