He was doing an “undercover investigation” for his school newspaper. Along the way, he enlisted the help of his 11yo sister and his mom. Among the things the recruiters helped him do:

  • get a drug clean-out kit (he said he was high and couldn’t kick the habit)
  • get a high school diploma from a diploma mill

The premise was simple: McSwane would try to join the Army as a high school dropout with an insatiable fondness for marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms. No matter how stoned and stupid McSwane acted, a pair of recruiters wouldn’t wouldn’t let him go.

The recruiters are desperate due to the manpower demands of an elective war of imperialism begun by this administration. They’re stuck between a rock and a hard place, and the blame all goes to duhbya.