COUNTERING MILITARY RECRUITMENT
Articles: Military Recruiting: General
FBI: Recruiters Caught in Drug Probe
Associated Press
December 17, 2006
A dozen Army and Marine recruiters who visited high schools were among
the personnel caught in a major FBI cocaine investigation, and some
were allowed to keep working while under suspicion, a newspaper
reported Sunday.
None of the recruiters was accused of providing drugs to students.
The recruiters, who worked in the Tucson area, were targets of a
federal sting called Operation Lively Green, which ran from 2001 to
2004 and was revealed last year.
So far, 69 members of the military, prison guards, law enforcement
employees and other public employees have been convicted of accepting
bribes to help smuggle cocaine.
The Arizona Daily Star reviewed the investigation and court documents
and found that the FBI allowed many recruiters to stay on the job even
though they were targeted by the investigation.
Some were still recruiting three years after they were photographed
running drugs in uniform, the newspaper said.
Most of the recruiters pleaded guilty and will be sentenced in March.
Some honorably retired from the military.
The sting began after the FBI received tips that a former Army
National Guardsman was taking bribes to fix military aptitude tests
for recruits, FBI Special Agent Adam Radtke said.
Military officials say they kept the recruiters on the job because the
FBI told them to leave the suspects alone to avoid jeopardizing the
sting.
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