Recruiting

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• A Teacher's Account of How Recruiters Preying on Students Get the Military Out of Our High Schools By Jesse Sharkey  http://www.counterpunch.org/sharkey10202004.html  

• Against the war machine: Military recruiters face youth and student resistance http://www.lefthook.org/Politics/Thompson051705.html

• Army Having Difficulty Meeting Goals In Recruiting Fewer Enlistees Are in Pipeline; Many Being Rushed Into Service. Washington Pos 2/21 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40469-2005Feb20.html

• Army Recruiters: No Latino Left Behind http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=f8e760fbb11b129214cbb8fbb8b155cb  
• Army Recruiters Stand Down to Refocus on Values American Forces Press Service http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2005/20050520_1265.html
• Army recruits war gamers for real thing Army hopes video gamers make it to next level -- basic training. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/121604dnlivarmygames.4713d.html
• Army, Marine recruiters shift focus to wary parents USA Today 4/4/2005 http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-04-04-recruiters-parents_x.htm 
• Army To Suspend Recruiting For Retraining Following Target 5 Investigation Video by WLWT
  http://www.channelcincinnati.com/news/4508233/detail.html 
• Berkeley High Teach-In Targets War and Military Recruitment By Judith Scherr 3/25/05 http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=03-25-05&storyID=21011 
• College Scholarship Resource for Minorities http://criticalconcern.com/college_scholarship_resource_for_minorities.htm  
• Congressman calls for Army recruiting investigation  Congressman Pete Stark says he'll ask Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to appoint a special counsel and to begin an independent investigation into what he calls "the Army's illegal and dishonorable recruiting tactics." http://www.kvue.com/news/state/stories/051905kvueInvestigate-eh.28ccead48.html
• 'Counter-recruiters' shadowing the military www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-03-07-counter-recruiters_x.htm 
• Do You Know Enough to Enlist? downloadable pdf from American Friends Service Committee http://www.afsc.org/youthmil/resources/new-enlist.pdf  
• DoD News Briefing Major General Michael D. Rochelle, U.S. Army Recruiting Commander http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2005/tr20050520-2881.html
• For Army Recruiters, a Hard Toll From a Hard Sell At least 37 members of the Army Recruiting Command, which oversees enlistment, have gone AWOL since October 2002, Army figures show. An Army chaplain said he had counseled nearly a dozen recruiters in the past 18 months to help them cope with marital troubles and job-related stress.
  http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/nyregion/27recruit.html? 

• From Video War Games to Signing Up for Military? Youths Try Out Gear and Maybe Get Career Ideas at an Annual High School Cadet Drill Contest by Jason Felch http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0404-05.htm

• Garfield volunteers for military recruiting battle Seattle http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/224957_recruit19.html 

• High School Students Protest Military Recruiting Seattle http://www.komotv.com/stories/36963.htm 
• Is honesty being sacrificed to meet recruitment goals? Tacoma http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/letters/story/4880509p-4475830c.html 
• Judge: Yale Can Block Military Recruiters NY Times Feb. 2, 2005 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Yale-Military-Recruiters.html?ex 
• Many Urban Youth Choose Between War in the Streets and War Overseas  http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=5bb1e34de658233a8f78fe9235630002 

• Military Free Zone  Information on No Child Left Behind, opt-out, recruiting lies, the college funding myth, financial aid options, etc www.militaryfreezone.org

• Military Recruiters Find the Going Tough NPR Audio http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4661482 

• Military Recruiters Lie About Dangers In Iraq  http://www.channelcincinnati.com/news/4508233/detail.html  Video: Watch Dave Wagner's Report http://www.channelcincinnati.com/news/4508233/detail.html#

• Military recruiting spam identified by filtering service Thousands of spam victims are receiving unsolicited email advertising a Web site published by the U.S. Department of Defense Marketing Department http://www.matterform.com/news/govspam.php
• Military Recruitment in the High Schools Resources  John Byk collected some great resources. http://criticalconcern.com/military_recruitment_highschools.htm
• No Child Left Unrecruited collection of links on provision in No Child Left Behind law to grant the Pentagon access to directories with students names, addresses and phone numbers so that they may be more easily contacted and recruited for military service. http://criticalconcern.com/no_child_left_unrecruited.htm
• Officer crisis hits Army Reserve Seattle Times. The Army Reserve is facing an extreme shortage of company officers, a situation aggravated by a surge in resignation requests. To bolster recruiting efforts, the Reserve is adding 400 additional recruiters who will be hustling for new soldiers. The National Guard also is on the hunt for more recruits, adding an additional 1,400 recruiters. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002113845_officershortage09m.html
• OIF, OEF Veterans Wanted As Special Recruiters The Army wants OIF and OEF veterans to go to their local communities to talk about life in the military and their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. This, official say, is an effort to raise awareness about the military, while at the same time encouraging young adults to join the Army. DefenseLINK News Feb 10, 2005 http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Feb2005/n02102005_2005021002.html
• Recruitment met with disinterest Helen Thomas, Hearst Newspapers March 30, 2005
  http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/217976_thomas30.html 
• Rift over recruiting at public high schools  A Seattle high school bars military solicitation, touching off debate over Iraq war and free speech  http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0518/p02s01-ussc.html 
• Steady Drop in Black Army Recruits Data Said to Reflect Views on Iraq War http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18461-2005Mar8.html?referrer=email
• The Dirty World Of Military Recruiting  http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=38ffe8d906867059652e13e7053a18e8
• The Draft Is Coming, Maybe -- and I Don't Want to Go http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=4d1488d3dbbb63fefc3bd5879fbb45d0
• Tougher sell than it used to be - Local military recruiters feel impact of war King County Journal http://www.kingcountyjournal.com/sited/story/html/176066
• U.S. Army recruiters cause uproar at College Park High PLEASANT HILL - U.S. Army recruiters turned College Park High School's quad into a lunchtime shooting range Wednesday, much to the consternation of teachers and students. http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/living/education/10698686.htm 
• War protesters target military recruiting Chicago Tribune, December 17, 2004 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0412170194dec17,1,479379.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
• Where Are the New Recruits? a long-standing policy limiting deployments of National Guard and Army Reserve forces is likely to be scrapped. That's going to make the already difficult job of recruiting--and retaining--such part-time soldiers even tougher. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1015898-1,00.html

Dennis W. Mills 2005