[quote name='camoor']Actually that's becoming a big problem. Gangs are sending members into the military to get trained in marksmanship and tactics - it makes the gangbangers more effective, disciplined, and lethal.[/quote]
That smells a little like a modern "news" story of turning a few isolated events (or even an urban legend) into an epidemic.
Even if that's true, the exact opposite is true as well. I occasionally work with a guy who is a drill instructor at one of those schools where they send little gangbanger kids to boot camp (kinda like that football movie with The Rock). Those who fail to complete the boot camp get tossed in the slammer. The vast majority get their shit together if they make it through, and some even join the Army for real. The ones who fail almost always end up dead. Anyways, my point being the Army fixes more than it breaks, in regards to the background of those who join.