Military Recruitment -- Colorado Style [UPDATED]

UPDATE: For the latest on the investigation into the bizarre recruiting practices exposed by a Colorado high school student, click on Fallout from Army Investigation, Army pair's tactics eyed, and Glass shattered at recruit office

High school student David McSwane wanted to see how recruiters would react if he told them he wanted to join the Army but was hooked on pot and didn't have a high school diploma.  So he went to a Golden, Colorado recruiting center and found out.

Rocky Mountain News online

David McSwane, a writer and editor for his school newspaper, turned over audio and videotapes to CBS 4 News that revealed one recruiter telling the 17-year-old to create a fake high school diploma while another drove him to a store to purchase a detoxification kit to rid his system of marijuana traces.

Denver's CBS affiliate reported McSwane's sting on the 10 o'clock news Thursday night.  By 7 o'clock Friday morning, someone had fired 8 shots at a regional recruitment center in Westminster, Colorado -- shattering glass but injuring no one.

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The recruitment center that was attacked is not the center that McSwane had visited, but

. . . Tim Read, an investigator with the Westminster Police Department, believes the shooting and the TV report are connected. He said the recruitment center had not previously been the target of an attack.

"The timeliness is too significant to ignore," he said.

There is much in this story that is too significant to ignore.