Background:
Investigators began examining this case in 2003, after a Marine made allegations to recruiting officials that recruiters were falsifying documents and asking Marine applicants, during the enlistment process, to conceal background information such as past drug use or medical issues.

In addition to his own fraudulent enlistments, the recruiter was apparently encouraging other recruiters in the substation to conceal applicants' background information to help them make their quotas.

"He wasn't just committing it himself, he was counseling his recruiters under his charge to do the same thing," White said. (Marine Corps Times, Nov. 1, 2004)

CONCLUSION:

• Marine, Staff Sgt. Lance A. Shetrompf, 28, of Naples, Fla., who was court-martialed in December 2003
• Charged with 27 counts of enlistment fraud and other charges!
• Illegal recruitment practices were being pushed on recruiters from top down - not just a few "bad apples" in the recruitment bunch!