An Inside Look at the Military's Internet Recruiting War Some will consider this lots of reading. Excerpt (conclusion): I'd think that potential recruits that surf the 'net may be more likely to come across ogrish.com-type, reality-of-war content that would seemingly reduce susceptibility to the marketing...
Kids turn up in droves when the war is just, and if Rummy'd had an ounce of foresight he could have doubled the size of the army as well as gotten probably 50% of the military to voluntarily extend their service in the weeks after 9/11. But we wanted a smaller, leaner army - how's that going so far? *cue Karl K doing the Kevin Bacon thing from Animal House...
Hell, I called my recruiter in North Jersey, from Dallas, on 9/12...but you're right in hinging teen/youth reaction on the just nature of the thing; a combination of access to the unedited content that comprises a fuller picture of this thing, combined with its unjustness, its illegality, I'll submit revisedly, may in fact drive 'net youth away, and not toward, this Excutive's designs...
Recruiters lie and use underhanded tactics ? NO WAY ! This has been going on since the Army went all volunteer This is nothing new
At least the Navy stopped clubbing drunks outside of bars to fill their ranks. Or maybe not, I could be an admiral by now.
Ask folks you know in the military about the recruitment process You'll see this crap has been there since the start Recruiters are like used car salesmen and spammers
Again, I'm not denying the reality (I met with a recruiter when I was in high school so I'm more than familiar with the tactics). I'm just not willing to say that because that's the way it's always been* that I'm willing to accept it. * There have also been numerous reports that recruiters have kicked it up a notch in recent months given their remarkably lackluster recruiting numbers. So if it was bad to begin with, I can only imagine how it is now.
I really don't think it's the 'net that's keeping recruits away -- it's more human-based than that. Your parents don't want you to join the Army because they didn't raise you to be cannon fodder, and you go to the barbeque for your cousin who just got back from Iraq and you hear him say he wishes he'd joined the Navy instead ... and it's a lot more complex and a lot more subtle than that. As far as recruiting goes, here's an interesting look at a day in the life of a recruiter.
Both my brothers enlisted in the Navy out of HS. Some of their stories about kids being railroaded into sh!t jobs (Yeoman, Engineman, Boiler Tech, etc.) are truly scary.
With our alleged "open" colleges and universities shutting the door to active duty military recruitment and Reserve Officer Training School (ROTC) function on campus, it is no small surprise that the Armed Services suffer shortfalls. Harvard leads the discriminatory pack in allowing perversion on campus via homosexual organizations yet denies active military recruitment. Strange it is that Harvard's alumni in uniform suffered so tragically for the freedom that the college now wrongly wields. I like the idea being bandied about to restrict federal funding from any school denying military recruiters or ROTC instruction; it keeps the schools honest, for which Harvard, among others, is not.
Great article. I'm amazed that only 2 out of 13 people passed the ASVAB that day. I took it and it is pretty basic stuff.
i'd like to restrict federal funding to schools that don't support the arts.. oh wait... that's why there aren't any arts in the schools any more.. the government.... you know, maybe (itn) you'd be a more compassionate person if you had taken theatre or art in school. you know, with all those homos.
That artist did a really good job hiding Jon Saraceno's receding hairline. His USA Today photo makes him look much older than your avatar.