To those individuals who want to wait on their country.

To those individuals who want to wait on their country, being a part of the U military is an honor. With the ongoing war in Iraq, the even of recruiting has increased. While I recognize the ne for it, I am growing make uneasyed about the military recruitment tactics.

It has proceed to my attention that the military is desperately searching for just discovered recruits and is using hardy pressure and making faulty promises to excite recruitment. The pressures of recruiters are verging forward harassment, and they need to accept people's decisions whether for or against joining the military.

Our high gymnasium frequently has colleges, trade institutes and the military set up booth during luncheon for those who are interested in attending their facilities. While many of these drills visit our high school, merely the recruiters from the military seek for out and disturb students during luncheon

This harassment does not stop at the luncheon table. Frequently students are called repetitively by way of recruiters, even after showing no interest in joining. level if schools thought that the military crushings were too intense, they could not ask them not to visit because of the Solomon Amendment, which would hap some, if not all, of the restraint funding for the schools.

In the advertisements for the military, they exhibit to men and women driving camouflage give in exchanges and jumping out of airplanes. In not single of the advertisements do they point out to men and women leaving their family and friends for protracted periods of time, performing rigorous advantage camp training, getting constant verbal abuse or losing a friend or equable their own lives in combat. Military advertisements also guard to target younger viewers by means of appealing to them with adventure and circulating medium

Service in the U military is a choice; no single in kind should be pressured, manipulated or hoaxed to join. Military representatives ne to realize that if high instruct students were interested in joining the service, they would seek for them out and find information upon the program. Recruiting is becoming too uttermost and is growing into harassment. Furthermore, advertisements should not leave out of view the whole truth of the armed forces. Recruiters should not make false promises or heedlessness to mention all that is entailed in being in the military. The service should be seen as an honor, not something that someone is being pressur and lied to procure them to join.

Jennifer Re

Lisle

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