Military Counter-Recruitment in the Time of Covid
“It’s as if they, the recruiters, are on staff.” A parent of a high school student at Pioneer Valley commented.
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Category: Military Recruiting
Military Recruiting & Counter-Recruiting
Get Military Recruiters Out of Our High Schools
Military recruiters deliberately exploit the financial and social insecurities of teenagers to enlist more soldiers, notes Sidney Miralao.
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We Are Not Your Soldiers tour to high schools and colleges
We Are Not Your Soldiers and World Can’t Wait is organizing speaking events for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans at schools nationwide.
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Army recruitment now based on student debt
The US Army wants 25,000 more troops. Preying on low income high schoolers and the student loan crisis is apparently how they intend to do it.
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Watch this short video “before you enlist!”
“Before You Enlist!” (2018), a short video that provides a rational voice to counter often deceptive US military recruiting practices.
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More resources:
- Truth in Recruiting (Iraq Veterans Against the War)
- The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY)
- Counter Recruitment (War Resisters League)
- Counter Recruitment (American Friends Service Committee)
- Top 10 Lies (Some) Recruiters Tell
- Images above from the Stop Recruiting Kids campaign
National Guard and Military Objectors Defense Fund
Why Donate?
“Courage to Resist has helped individuals who have taken brave stands, has been an important bridge between anti-war soldiers and civilians, and has helped both publicize and build the critical component of soldier resistance in ending war.”
-Steve Morse, GI Rights Hotline counselor & VietNam War era GI resister
