Project 100,000
1960S PROGRAM BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO RECRUIT SOLDIERS WHO WOULD PREVIOUSLY HAVE BEEN BELOW MILITARY MENTAL OR MEDICAL STANDARDS
McNamara's 100,000; Moron Corps; New Standards Men; McNamara's Morons
Project 100,000, also known as McNamara's 100,000, McNamara's Folly, McNamara's Morons, and McNamara's Misfits, was a controversial 1960s program by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to recruit soldiers who would previously have been below military mental or medical standards. Project 100,000 was initiated by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in October 1966 to meet the escalating manpower requirements of the American government's involvement in the Vietnam War.