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I live at home and I've been going to college from home for about 18 months now.
During that time military recruiters have called at least once a month, sometimes twice, attempting to get me to sign me. They called my mother's house as well, where I do not live, and tried to convince her to get me to sign up. My mother is not a big supporter of the Iraq war, so she researched this no child left behind act where it has a proviso for this sort of thing. The recruiters are not truthful when they talk about the compensations for joining up, and leaving, and they straightout lie about the reenlistment shenangians the military is doing.
I brought up several issues whenever the recruitment officer would call, about forced reenlistment, national guard serving in a foreign country, under-funded military supplies for humvees, body armor etc and they just completely blew me off, and having read a confessional by one recruitment officer from conneticut, I think...they are forced to sign up 2 kids a month or they find themselves in Iraq.
It's pretty fucked. This is not the way to run a volunteer army.
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