Tag: Military Recruitment Issues
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Veterans Push Back Against Military Recruitment in Schools
The branches of the U.S. military have long seen high schools as optimal recruiting grounds. Some veterans are beginning to fight the propaganda and tell students the truth about military service. April 3, 2023 / Ruben Abrahams Brosbe / Yes! Magazine - March 20 marked the 20th anniversary of the United States’ invasion of Iraq. The war took hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives, with some ...
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Army boss’ mission: Persuade schools to welcome recruiters
March 5, 2023 / Lolita C. Baldor / AP News - Army recruiters struggling to meet enlistment goals say one of their biggest hurdles is getting into high schools, where they can meet students one on ...
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Will Student Debt Relief Really Undermine Military Recruitment?
Military recruiters often target low-income youth. Will Biden’s student loan relief plan mean vulnerable youth no longer have to choose between debt and military service? September 28, 2022 / ...
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Recruitment, counter-recruitment and critical military studies
Introduction December 2016 / Matthew F. Rech / School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University - On 8 January 2002 in the US, George Bush Jr. signed into law an educational federal ...
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‘America’s Army’, the Pentagon’s Video Game, Shuts Down After 20 Years
For two decades, the U.S. Army used a video game to reach new recruits. It’s finally shutting it down. Matthew Gault | Vice - America’s Army: Proving Grounds, a game used as a recruitment tool by ...
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Tracy High School Peace Club
The Peace Club at Tracy HS in Cerritos, CA is a small but powerful tribe. Our club meets on campus every Thursday at lunch under the leadership of club president Kenny Fletcher and Vice President, ...
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Debate: Military recruiting in public schools
Should the military be allowed to recruit in public schools? With the USA and its allies involved in 2 major conflicts in recent years, military recruitment has become an important issue. But some ...
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Militarism in Education
Andreas Speck - “On 1 August 1914, it was too late for pacifist propaganda, it was too late for militarist propaganda – in fact the militarists then only harvested what they have sown 200 years ...
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Returning Fire: Interventions in Video Game Culture
Making Contact: National Radio Project - At the mall, online, and even within the US military. Interactive, realistic, pro-war video games have become part of American culture. But anti-war ...
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Endless War - Marines prepare for enlistment challenge
James Dao - Ad Campaign for Marines Cites Chaos as a Job Perk The war in Iraq is over, the troop reduction in Afghanistan is under way and America’s next war front is far from clear. If you are a ...
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