Those trinkets are $50,000 enlistment bonuses, college educations, all medical, dental and optical services and proceedures paid as well as no-cost prescriptions.
$250,000 life insurance for $16.00 per month. Eligibility for home loans. Free health and fitness facilities.
Food, clothing a roof over their heads and a monthly salary. In addition to learning invaluable skills taught nowhere else.
Call it "welfare" and the Liberals are all over it, call it "Military Service" and they say it's deplorable, go figure.
Oh, I forgot the investment opportunites and retirement plan.
"All branches of the military are falling short of recruiting goals . ."=========================
Moms tell recruiters "Leave my child alone. I want him to become a limp-wristed pansy instead of a man."
Libraries forced to close. No National Guard to fight forest fires. They can’t find $8.5 billion of the funds we sent to Iraq.
Huh?? My town just built a brand new huge library. Call me confused.
Can we use the "leave my child alone" slogan against the atheists and queers? What about against the "go to school and arrange an abortion without your parents' knowledge" crowd? And how about against the "shove diversity/tolerance down your throat till you puke" crowd?
Commie Scum alert!
Hey, Bitch! Your "child" is of the same age that my Dad was when he enlisted in the US Navy to fight the Japs and Krauts! The problem with you "moms" and you give "Mom" a real bad name, is that you don't understand that eventually, you have to let your personal piece of art go out into the world, and if, despite your pathetic attempts, he turns out to be a good American, there isn't a damned thing you can do about it. You had 18 years to beat patriotism out of him...I guess you didn't beat him hard enough!
I guess they think their kids are pretty stupid.
I would have been in the Navy if my parents didn't tell me I couldn't go.
I went right to the Naval Recruit table at my career night when I was in H.S.
Fact: An average recruiter in Germany turns away 10 or more calls A DAY from foreign nationals who want to enlist but lack a Green Card.
The Army just like other firms has "head hunters". In the Army we call them recruiters. In the Army we target young healthy males with high school degrees for recruitment. It’s a “no-brainer”, these ADULTS that are targeted are also targeted by others and many of them who do join are near perfect matches for what they will be doing. Retention in the Army is not that horrible and many of those people who join stick around. Point is, they are happy that they went to the recruiter. I am confused. Why is it wrong for a recruiter to look for VOLUNTEER ADULTS as others do as well within a high school? What is their point?
I like the “buzz words” used. “Back-door draft”- Beautiful, straight from the Kerry campaign trail! So, is recruiting in high schools a new phenomena? No! And how is a VOLUNTEER ADULT who may even like his job and stay on board for a 20-30 year career (Which many do) a “back-door draft”?
“They know where to find kids who don’t think they have a lot of options. They are playing on our children’s lack of hope about college and their future.” Was said.-
No $hit! So does McDonalds! So does every business out there. Labor is a commodity with a supply and a demand. As a socialist she probably can’t understand this concept, but her whole life, and EVERY aspect of it is dictated by this concept. Her health care, retirement, even her education and wage. Human labor IS a commodity, it has a price. Most firms have a target audience for recruitment. Some actually target old people for employment and structure their payment/benefit plans accordingly. She has just identified the obvious! Next she’ll discover her tonsils and will get scared about that big growth in the rear of her throat.
“Watson shares these views. “I do utterly oppose our occupation of Iraq,” she said. “We are spending $4 billion every month on this war. People are seeing the cost not only in dead and wounded but also in their own communities. Libraries forced to close. No National Guard to fight forest fires. They can’t find $8.5 billion of the funds we sent to Iraq. And they want to squeeze it out of Medicaid funding for senior citizens. It’s just outrageous” Was said-
Thank God that way of thinking did not prevail during the Cold War. These narrow minded shortsighted idiots have no clue. They literally would rather see Kohbar towers, USS Cole, US embassies exploding and WTC falling than spend the required resources to prevent this from happening. After the fact they say “Oh my, how awful!” or better yet, “Stay away from my kid!”, but don’t spend that money buying equipment to protect someone else’s kid. (sarcasm follows) Man, $8.5 Billion, think of how many free licenses we can grant to illegal in CA? That can pay for a lot of illegal aliens in our prisons for a long time. What wasted money!
What idiots!!!
Red6
The louder the mammas rail against their off spring entering the Military, the more new recruits sign up.
These ladies need to remember that no place or career choice is safe anymore. Pizza deliverers, taxi drivers, pilots, doctors, nurses, stay at home moms, teachers, preachers, burger flippers, baby sitters, babies in the womb, etc., etc., are killed and wounded at a comparable rate to our troops in combat, some at greater rates.
Some believe nothing is worth dying in defence of- liberals and their politicians for example. Others believe any frivilous, petty little piece of crap is not only worth dying for, but worth destroying civilization for-your average everyday Islamite for example.
This war won't go away just because some choose to pretend it doesn't exist, and it will be won someday, by either us or the bad guys. Surrendering is not an option.
This Watson chick doesn't want her kid talking to a recruiter because SHE disagrees with the war. It has really very little to do with HER views.
That being said, unless my kids initiate the contact with recruiters, I don't want them bothering mine either as minors. Unless colleges are given the same info on students as recruiters?
I just don't like the idea of ADULTS contacting my kids without my knowledge or prior approval. Kid hits 18, have at her. Under 18, she's still mine and you will respect my authority as her father.