Army Recruiters
I am disgusted.
But I am not naive enough to say that I didn't already know this was going on.
Every summer in Chicago, I refuse to go to the Air & Water show, where we see military jets doing amazing stunts and recruiters infiltrate the audience & try to get people to enlist. Sorta like showing them that the military is "cool" and not addressing the fact that we send our boys off to be killed for a war that shouldn't be. Recruiters typically prey on the young.
This is just another example.
( http://tinyurl.com/y4j3h4 )
Nov. 3, 2006 - - An ABC News undercover investigation showed Army recruiters
telling students that the war in Iraq was over, in an effort to get them to
enlist.
ABC News and New York affiliate WABC equipped students with hidden video
cameras before they visited 10 Army recruitment offices in New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut.
"Nobody is going over to Iraq anymore?" one student asks a recruiter.
"No, we're bringing people back," he replies.
"We're not at war. War ended a long time ago," another recruiter says.
Last year, the Army suspended recruiting nationwide to retrain recruiters
following hundreds of allegations of improprieties.
One Colorado student taped a recruiting session posing as a drug-addicted
dropout.
"You mean I'm not going to get in trouble?" the student asked.
The recruiters told him no, and helped him cheat to sign up.
During the ABC News sessions, some recruiters told our students if they
enlisted, there would be little chance they'd to go Iraq.
But Col. Robert Manning, who is in charge of U.S. Army recruiting for the
entire Northeast, said that new recruits were likely to go to Iraq.
"I would not disagree with that," Manning said. "We are a nation and Army at
war still."
Manning looked at the ABC News video of his recruiters.
"It's hard to believe some of things they are telling prospective
applicants," Manning said. "I still believe that this is the exception more
than the norm. . I've visited many stations myself, and I know that we have
many wonderful Americans serving in uniform as recruiters."
Yet ABC News found one recruiter who even claimed if you didn't like the
Army, you could just quit.
"It's called a 'Failure to Adapt' discharge," the recruiter said. "It's an
entry-level discharge so it won't affect anything on your record. It'll just
be like it never happened."
Manning, however, disagrees with the ease the recruiter describes.
"I would believe it's not as easy as he would lead you to believe it is," he
said.
Sue Niederer, whose son, Seth, joined the Army in 2002, said she was all too
familiar with recruiters' lies.
"They need to do anything they possibly can to get recruits," Niederer said.
Seth was sent to Iraq and was killed by a roadside bomb.
Niederer said she was not surprised by what ABC News had found. She believes
it's still a widespread problem. She said that recruiters told Seth he
wouldn't be put into combat.
"Ninety percent [are] going to be putting their lives on the line for our
country," she said. "Tell them the truth. That's all. Just tell them the
truth."
But I am not naive enough to say that I didn't already know this was going on.
Every summer in Chicago, I refuse to go to the Air & Water show, where we see military jets doing amazing stunts and recruiters infiltrate the audience & try to get people to enlist. Sorta like showing them that the military is "cool" and not addressing the fact that we send our boys off to be killed for a war that shouldn't be. Recruiters typically prey on the young.
This is just another example.
( http://tinyurl.com/y4j3h4 )
Nov. 3, 2006 - - An ABC News undercover investigation showed Army recruiters
telling students that the war in Iraq was over, in an effort to get them to
enlist.
ABC News and New York affiliate WABC equipped students with hidden video
cameras before they visited 10 Army recruitment offices in New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut.
"Nobody is going over to Iraq anymore?" one student asks a recruiter.
"No, we're bringing people back," he replies.
"We're not at war. War ended a long time ago," another recruiter says.
Last year, the Army suspended recruiting nationwide to retrain recruiters
following hundreds of allegations of improprieties.
One Colorado student taped a recruiting session posing as a drug-addicted
dropout.
"You mean I'm not going to get in trouble?" the student asked.
The recruiters told him no, and helped him cheat to sign up.
During the ABC News sessions, some recruiters told our students if they
enlisted, there would be little chance they'd to go Iraq.
But Col. Robert Manning, who is in charge of U.S. Army recruiting for the
entire Northeast, said that new recruits were likely to go to Iraq.
"I would not disagree with that," Manning said. "We are a nation and Army at
war still."
Manning looked at the ABC News video of his recruiters.
"It's hard to believe some of things they are telling prospective
applicants," Manning said. "I still believe that this is the exception more
than the norm. . I've visited many stations myself, and I know that we have
many wonderful Americans serving in uniform as recruiters."
Yet ABC News found one recruiter who even claimed if you didn't like the
Army, you could just quit.
"It's called a 'Failure to Adapt' discharge," the recruiter said. "It's an
entry-level discharge so it won't affect anything on your record. It'll just
be like it never happened."
Manning, however, disagrees with the ease the recruiter describes.
"I would believe it's not as easy as he would lead you to believe it is," he
said.
Sue Niederer, whose son, Seth, joined the Army in 2002, said she was all too
familiar with recruiters' lies.
"They need to do anything they possibly can to get recruits," Niederer said.
Seth was sent to Iraq and was killed by a roadside bomb.
Niederer said she was not surprised by what ABC News had found. She believes
it's still a widespread problem. She said that recruiters told Seth he
wouldn't be put into combat.
"Ninety percent [are] going to be putting their lives on the line for our
country," she said. "Tell them the truth. That's all. Just tell them the
truth."
posted by Alanda at 10:51 AM
2 Comments:
That is horrifying. I also agree 110% with the air and water show's subversive meaning.
Horrifying indeed. It's unbelievable how manipulative we are as a race, with little to no value of human life.
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