This link, from Jeremy Rice above, should be compulsory viewing for every elected polition and their spouse; as well as every non-elected worker at the Pentagon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fkkdoDOIJM

I dont understand why people continue to talk bad about the president and blame everything that happens on him! Lieing recruiters have nothing to do with George Bush, but it has everything to do with morality issues. So should we blame the parents of the lieing recruiters…of course not. It is all about the person who lies. If there is one thing that I have learned about the American public since I have been stationed overseas- is the fact that we never want to put blame in its proper place. The blames should go on the shoulders of those lieing recruiters, not the US Army or the Goverment. Hell if you ask me the president should reinstate the draft just so that some of you simple minded ass-holes can learn what it is like to defend people that hate you in the name of freedom!

#36986 has it exactly right.  25 years ago I was forced to command Army recruiting operations in the Pacific.  In 30 years of Army service, it was the only distasteful job I ever had.  Don’t blame the recruiters, blame the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld bums for the mess they’ve made since 2001.

Recruiting Command has one of the worst reputations in the Army.
The recruiters are caught between a rock and a hard place.  Most of these guys are career soldiers who are trying to make it to their 20-year retirement.
Knowing how Recruiting Command operates, I’d say that those soldiers who are returned to their units for not making quotas probably still get NCOERs, their evaluations, that are lower than whale crap, which will damage their chances for promotion, and retention, if this stupid war ever comes to an end.
The only way to clean up recruiting is to overhaul Recruiting Command, and take the undue pressure off the recruiters, many of whom have been ordered to recruiting duty, and don’t even want to be there.

yeah, my friend enlisted in the army in 2002. she needed options in life. she was told that the army would not send her to iraq. well, you know what, she was sent somewhere else—afghanistan. do not be dooped. it can cost your life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snOSbpebAeM&mode=related&search;=

Vote.

Before You Enlist!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fkkdoDOIJM

The No Child Left Behind Act contains a provision whereby schools must provide data on students to military recruiters or they could lose their federal funding.  There are no 16, 17, or 18 year olds emotionally equipped to negotiate their future with an authority figure in a uniform, on a subject as serious as to whether or not they want to risk being fed into the meat grinder of war.  However, our systems does just that, by giving all the access information on our students to the military recruiters.  In 2005 there were more than 100 sexual assualts reported by young females in these age brackets who had been assualted by a military recruiter.  The pattern in each case was the same, they had met the recruiter at their high school and the contact information had come from their school records. Perhaps that act should be renamed to No Child Left Behind By Government Exploitation.  Congrats go out once again to Bush and his bandits for another manipulation of Americans by using a positive sounding act for very negative things.  No one does it better than the GOP (Greedy Opressive People).