Protect your children from military recruiters
Leave My Child Alone and Military Free Zone both have resources for parents who wish to safeguard their children from both the dangers of war and the questionable tactics of military recruiters desperate to make their quotas. Katrina vanden Heuvel has details some recent incidents in "Recruiters Sink to New Lows:"
In Houston, one recruiter warned a potential recruit that if he backed out of a meeting, "we'll have a warrant" for the potential recruit's arrest. In Colorado, a high school student, David McSwane, who wanted to see "how far the Army would go during a war to get one more soldier," told recruiters that he didn't finish high school and that he had a drug problem. "No problem," the recruiters responded. McSwane was told to create a diploma from scratch and to buy products at a store that would help him beat the drug test.Recruiters have urged teens to lie to their parents and have ignored medical and police records of potential recruits to not compromise recruiting goals. In Ohio, two recruiters signed up a 21-one-year-old man with bipolar disorder who had just been released from a psychiatric ward.
If parents won’t protect their children, who will?