Has there been a lowering of standards?

[psherlin]

While helping one of my wife's friends today at a clinic, I overheard a guy who works there talking about going back into the Army. When I talked to him he stated that his only option was, because he was a Army medic, was to go to Special Forces. He stated that his ASVAB score was a 97. Said they were sending him to Jump School then to SEARs training. Are recruiters just trying to fill quotas?
I feel bad for the guy if he is being scammed by the recruiters.