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Original Title: TIL of “Project 100,000.” in 1966, Sec. Def. Robert McNamara lowered enlistment standards to accept people with an IQ of 80 (borderline intellectually disabled) to boost military ranks. Fictional characters Leonard Lawrence (Full Metal Jacket) and Forest Gump were based on these recruits
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