Thread: First Recruits Enlist Using Biometric Technology

First Recruits Enlist Using Biometric Technology

By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service


WASHINGTON, April 18, 2008 – When 20 recruits gathered yesterday at the Baltimore Military Entrance Processing Station to sign their enlistment contracts, none needed a pen.



U.S. Army recruit Krista N. Hearne, 19, of Salisbury, Md., poses with the electronic Army enlistment contract she signed with her fingerprint as she became the first person to enlist in the U.S. military using biometric signatures. Photo by Army Lt. Col. Robert S. Larsen
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Instead, they read their contracts on a computer screen, then pressed their index fingers onto an electronic pad next to it, becoming the first servicemembers to enlist using biometric technology.

Army Lt. Col. Robert S. Larsen, the station commander, swore in the recruits on Fort Meade, Md. This marked a big step in the U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command’s transition to paperless enlistment recordkeeping, said Ted Daniels chief of the command’s accessions division.

Nineteen-year-old Krista Hearne of Salisbury, Md., became the first recruit to sign her enlistment contract biometrically before taking her oath of enlistment to join the Army. Eighteen-year-old Chance Muller of Sharpsburg, Md., followed, becoming the first male to use biometrics as he enlisted in the Marine Corps.

After swearing them into the military, Larson used his own index fingerprint to biometrically sign their contracts. When the process was completed, the new servicemembers received print-outs of their enlistment contracts, which included a facial photo and the fingerprint. No other paper was required for a process that once required multiple signatures and took reams of paper.

“The process starts off without paper and it ends up without paper,â€

Big Brother becoming Big Daddy

The mark of the beast cometh.

Originally Posted by Rockfish

The mark of the beast cometh.

No doubt. They lie about biometrics. It is only accurate about 30% of the time at best when it comes to FRT.

Time to grow a beard and have very long hair.

The beast has arrived it seems !

I agree... it is one of the marks of the beast