US Army Recruiting Mentally Sick Army Recruiters Caught on Hidden Camera

News Channel 5 (U.S.)
The United States Army insists that it's not so desperate that it would recruit the mentally ill to serve on the front lines. But now an exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation has the Army investigating three Middle Tennessee recruiters, along with their Dishonorable Deceptions. It's all part of a hidden-camera investigation led by our chief investigative reporter Phil Williams. We began with an Army investigation into the suicide of a local soldier. Among those listed as the official casualties of war, you will not find the name of Private Jay Mallard. "I just feel like somebody reached in and took part of your heart out, knowing you'll never see him again," his father, John Mallard, tells Phil Williams. But his parents say last year -- just two months after shipping out to boot camp -- the 30-year-old father of two became a casualty of a war and an Army so desperate for recruits that was willing to put a loaded rifle into a troubled man's hands. "The phone rang and she answered," Mallard recalls, referring to his wife, Mary. "And she started screaming and crying. She said Jay's killed hisself, stuck a gun in his mouth and killed hisself."...
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