Alarmed at the very idea that military recruiters can make direct appeals to high school students, a prominent anti-war academic is making some misleading statements of his own. “Recruiters promise cash bonuses, good salaries and benefits, job training, and money for college,” Scott Key, a faculty member at Fresno Pacific University writes in the summer 2006 issue of the magazine Rethinking Schools. “Some recruiters go further, promising enlistees excitement and travel, choice of jobs and locations, and anything else to convince someone to sign up.” “There are cases where recruiters promise enlistees that they will not have to go to...