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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
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Against the war machine: Military recruiters face youth
and student resistance http://www.lefthook.org/Politics/Thompson051705.html
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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?
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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
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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
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Military
Free Zone Information on No
Child Left Behind, opt-out, recruiting lies, the college funding myth,
financial aid options, etc
www.militaryfreezone.org
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Military
Recruiters Find the Going Tough NPR Audio http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4661482
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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