Tag: poverty draft
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Thousands of Teens Are Being Pushed Into Military’s Junior R.O.T.C.
In high schools across the country, students are being placed in military classes without electing them on their own. “The only word I can think of is ‘indoctrination,’” one parent said. Dec. 11, 2022 / Mike Baker, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Ilana Marcus / New York Times - On her first day of high school, Andreya Thomas looked over her schedule and found that she was enrolled in a class with ...
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The Army Beat Its Recruitment Goals This Year by Targeting Students in Debt
“Debt is a form of social control. You can force people to do all kinds of things if you put them in debt first." Leila Ettachfini / VICE - The U.S. Army has already achieved its recruiting goal ...
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Football, the military and one Florida high school student’s difficult choice
Kent Babb - MONTICELLO, Fla. — The binder sat open on his adoptive mother’s lap, turned to the page where the scholarship papers lay in a transparent sleeve. Nik Branham said nothing, holding the ...
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The Military Enlistment Opportunity Act: a New Kind of Draft?
Rick Jahnkow - It’s well established that many people who join the U.S. military do so because of their economic status. It could be that they do not see options for a civilian job that pays a ...