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By: Kendra Hurley
Published: May 25, 2005
Category: In Brief
Seventeen-year-old high school journalist David McSwane wanted to see how far Army recruiters were willing to go during war to get one more soldier, CBS News reports. So McSwane approached a recruiter in Golden, Colorado, posing as a high school dropout with a drug problem who wanted to enlist. The recruiter encouraged McSwane to create a fake high school diploma online and to purchase a "detoxification kit."
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