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Subject: What do you think about this?
I just read this, and personally, it disturbed me. Maybe I overreacted to the article, but what do you all think, anyway?
http://www.cnn.com/2002/EDUCATION/12/03/recruiting.high.schools.ap/index.html
I mean, my husband is military, as was my father. But doesn't this seem a bit 'unnecessary'? Shouldn't forcing them to register with the Selective Service at 18 be enough? Especially when they don't appear to be allowing you to "opt out" even when they say it's permitted. :-[
Subject: Re: What do you think about this?
I think it's wrong. Just another way the government controls people.
Pretty soon, we'll all be wearing bar code numbers in the back of our necks or chips implanted in our wrists to be kept track of. :-X ::) :P >:( >:( >:(
Subject: Re: What do you think about this?
This is wrong. No one should be recruiting youth at the age of 15 or 16. Those final years of youth or a very developmental stage, dreams goals, ambitions change on a daily basis. Also, if I were a parent of a youth a would be very upset to have my child prompted to make life effecting changes without my participation or input. I can agree with giving the military access similar to business or college recruitment but that's as far as I would agree to, they should not have any access to home information until that child is of age to enlist.
Subject: Re: What do you think about this?
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This is wrong. No one should be recruiting youth at the age of 15 or 16. End Quote
This is not a new thing.
When I was in high school, particularly 9-11th grades, we had Army recruiters in frequently to give a presentations and Q&A sessions.
I'm not saying its a good thing, but its not new at all.
Subject: Re: What do you think about this?
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I mean, my husband is military, as was my father. But doesn't this seem a bit 'unnecessary'? Shouldn't forcing them to register with the Selective Service at 18 be enough? Especially when they don't appear to be allowing you to "opt out" even when they say it's permitted. :-[End Quote
I registered for the selective services once I was 18, even though I wasn't technically a citizen yet. I wouldn't mind serving the US of A if they called on me.
I guess the US is one of the nations that doesn't have a required military service, like Israel or France (ooooh, those French) so maybe they're trying to find better ways to recruit kids to join the army (besides all those "be all you can be" commercials). But getting detailed info about these kids (many of whom are minors) doesn't seem right at all.
80sRocked posted just as I did :) but he's right, I've sat through those very military type talks not too long ago. That seems fine to me. I just don't like knowing that today's kids have a "Big Brother" looking at their files.
Subject: Re: What do you think about this?
Quoting:
This is not a new thing.
When I was in high school, particularly 9-11th grades, we had Army recruiters in frequently to give a presentations and Q&A sessions.
I'm not saying its a good thing, but its not new at all.
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I don't have any idea when it started--but, being a girl, and only having a sister at home, we may not have been deemed "worthy enough" to have been made aware of it. We did have an NJROTC outfit at school, maybe they only talked to those enrolled in that program about it, I don't know. Of course, I also grew up in an almost total military community, maybe they figured we all knew enough about it already.
But since I have kids of my own now, I sure know I'll be aware of it when they get into high school! >:(