we're going to cut it off there out of time thanks for being on the kaiser report thank you must thank you stacy and to the next episode already that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me thanks kaiser and stacy i would like to thank our guest jeremy l. if you'd like to reach us on twitter it's kaiser report intellect on. the war zone you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles they're going. to do soft credit tell you that they'll be gossiping probably by. day. off the bad guys who tell me you are not

cool enough to buy their product. all the hawks that we along the border will walk. this is where they pierced america's hearts on the eleventh of september two thousand and one fifteen years after the attacks new york is celebrating its heroes

the military. a parade to on a one point five million troops the save years of freedom every eleventh of november this parade on as generations of troops from the fallen of world war one to those returning from iraq or afghanistan their replacements are waiting the young generation the future of the world's most powerful military. these recruits are still in school they are between fourteen and seventeen years old and belong to the junior. jr o.t.c. is a pentagon program. lined up don't feel. not for arcanite speak right from the head young. six year old

three year olds not. just the price you're born with right. and. america has pledged to turn these children into heroes these junior troops include five hundred thousand minus across the united states they're the hope of a fearful country. they're destined to defy tara the first generation post nine eleven. at this public school in chicago's south one in five students opted for the army an

hour of classes a day five times a week taught by retired service members i was. i. these youngsters are in year eight then new to the program they'll receive their uniforms today. take city. to the u.s. army is teaching it more than three thousand public schools students who opt for the army are exempt from physical education. the biggest thing a look at as just make sure your hair does not touch your ears. they're facing a four year program created unfunded by the pentagon lots of fingernails right here what are some authorized colors that will.

let me see your nails by now hold them up right now tomorrow. if she doubt her nails like this right here she's going to lose points let me see those come from back so we come from structured environments and we know what it takes to create a structured environment regolith teaches a graduate she just gets if it and then they they start teaching but i don't think they really understand classroom management or demand engine large groups of people in different. different ways of doing it like. we do this and maybe that's why we can get the kids to push up but a regular teacher. as a one of you know become more of a better citizen in the country just want to become stronger physically and mentally. bracelet. just

like i was interested. like. this but any questions for. jr o.t.c. program was founded in one thousand nine hundred sixteen during world war one but over time its influence waned it was only after nine eleven that president george bush revitalized its image shortly thereafter the military starts preparing for war in afghanistan they need volunteers but there aren't any due to the impending war officially the pentagon calls it a contribution to the development of youth in chicago colonel retired after serving thirty three years in the army supervises junior cadets or the junior t.c.

. program is really about citizenship it's about. teaching young boys and girls high school age you know young men and women about service and you know what they can do to better themselves but i have nothing to do with recruiting so it's a distinct difference and it's a very important point because a lot of people a lot of teachers don't understand that they think that we are and you know we almost get defensive because we have to explain that we're not on a regular basis in chicago the program is widespread the army teaches that one in four schools are training more than ten thousand adolescents the authorities accept this militarization of education as especially useful for fighting gangs. for neighborhoods harlem high school another one finger and so south and west ten an era to be the rough ones once again it's what i would call the we give alternative

is great after two days for kids to do things a lot of fun and give back to the society the army is a good gang acting as a counterweight to the violent gangs last year three hundred one use under sixteen were shot thirty one died. to protect students the city provide security for their way home the guards are mostly veterans of iraq and afghanistan. i go for be careful. people die every night two thousand and sixteen was the deadliest year in chicago this past decade six hundred dead more than in any other american city shady characters walk the street as a curfew for people under twenty one starting at nine in the evening.

district in the city's south. in the morning. ready for school she's been in the sea for four years. kind of excited to. have. your actual. lunny i guess legace just. a uniform rules. the chaos for childhood shaped by violence. on wednesday students.

the three hundred eighty cadets have to wear the uniform one in five students has opted for the army the day starts with a troop inspection. do not take up your clothes you do not have a rank you don't think of the gulf you do not want your mum think over your clothes you carried on your forearm i missed one. and. since september yasmin has been leading the cadets she is the boss she inspects the troops. feel like i'm with the army yeah because at school they we're so used to like just doing everything maybe halfway and not actually giving it our hundred and when you see like the army videos you're like oh my god like they're so strict they have to do everything in unison whether you're shy or not your chance to step up to any problems so that way for a comfortable with yourself and things you are yourself so pretty much gives you

that confidence but. that's right again if you let it but. then see. the army doesn't just teach these students discipline they also learn the history of the armed forces as well as doing civil studies and getting into shape the pentagon provides the pool and is the sole decision maker regards their content. what does the army expense of the children it moves to its ideals officially nothing but it's hard to ignore the sergeant's business. it's. this this all of. the recruiters they leave their carts and these

a different routers navy army. marine corps and if looking at is interested in the military will give them the card and they contact the recruiter and the recruiter assist them in joining the military and that's why i said that we really don't. recruit we'll sister if the cadet is interested in going in the military but we don't recruit ourselves it's a win win because at the college level if the kid meets the requirements he or she could get either a for four years style should pay four or three or even two and then at the end of their college when they're about to graduate then they would be commissioned as an officer in the army air force or navy which actually pays very well if you go to college it's additional way there's no guarantees you get a job when you graduate college. does the school administration approve of these methods how to teach is that america's public schools see the presence of the army

in their classrooms now and see why the headmistress at the hubbard school is pragmatic. c.p.s. is struggling sometimes you know financially so we have to be real careful about how we promote programs and how we finance programs and share to some program is funded through the district so we don't take our school money to paid for teaches. yes it is which is a nice thing so and they're all it's here or they're retired military. officers and they come in. and they give back to the kids so they could pay through to the army to some program and this is me so it's nice it's something we don't have to pay for . the program also includes morning and evening activities before and off to school formal training parades military music on the

college. is creative in how it uses military drills to inspire and thousands of american youngsters to become soldiers. drug trafficking organizations are very sophisticated and they function very much like a global corporation you know they have different components they have components that engage in money laundering and wars med you know that chile security forces but surely not been forman's. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest read truth to

stand out of the news business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answers. question. the neo cons are back and they're back with a vengeance long associated with the extremist wing of the g.o.p. and tied to catastrophic policy failures they have now found themselves being embrace by the democrats and the liberal media it would seem to be a rush to track strange bedfellows. opposes the system. leave the army and since then he has someone to

discourage you from joining his film employ. they're. not communicating the full story. they ask me duty is very popular video game. play and they ask me is the military like call of duty. vast majority people who do the civilians. do you hear women and children screaming you know when they see their son or daughter child. beauty the video game. turn off call of duty oh yeah. these kids don't hear the darker side. to be a special forces soldier and food in afghanistan. he tries to convince teaches to let him talk about the reality of school. and i signed up to prevent another

terrorist attack by virtue of targeting so many innocent people. we are creating the conditions for more terrorist attacks. there's an important statistic you know between nine hundred eighty and two thousand and one there are three hundred eighty four suicide bombs around the world only ten percent of those suicide directed at the u.s. and u.s. interests since two thousand and one there's been over twenty five hundred suicide by the world with ninety percent aimed at the u.s. and u.s. interests. i'm lucky if i speak to three schools here because the program is. generally positive the teachers you know because it's a positive program don't necessarily. or rock the boat or bring someone like me and talk to the kids. i mean it's a perk arius work environment teachers unfortunately so it's. the u.s.

spends about sixty billion dollars a year on education we spend probably six hundred billion dollars a year on average on the military so it's about ten times more on the military than advocation we close fifty public schools here so there's no money for the schools so the military. is filling in the blanks. operates in districts while statistics on ethnic breakdowns in france not in the u.s. since chicago's j r c made up of fifty four percent latino thirty seven percent african-americans and only five percent caucasian yasmin's parents came to thirty years ago from mexico they rented out a small room for events in their neighborhood yasmin is the youngest of four children in the evening after school she always helps them in six months graduates

she dreams of going to university and becoming a social work designer. exploring a lot in being able to do many things at the same time and i know with being in the need to travel a lot which is awesome but i don't think i would be able to handle being away from home that long some people say. because they say. maybe not born in the united states and they feel like that's a great thing something made this.

the geographic allocation of the program shows discrepancies. for instance there's only one school in montana. program with just two schools in new hampshire. population of both states is ninety percent white the army is active in the major cities in the failing states of the rust belt and especially in the south. particularly in texas there are more than two hundred. after the nine eleven attacks before the region deployed troops. back home nearby. fort hood the.

other regions main employer. this is where the army has set up shooting ranges at schools teaching students how to use guns. every morning an hour before these young fourteen year old takes practice shooting. about five hundred feet. teach adults because many adults. and rifles and especially other kids that have pellet rifle b.b. guns you know they don't have

a lot of them haven't been to safety classes. kind of high interest rates of america and carry elections and actually gets to be. many. years ago. you are the future of america you want to control the country we continue to have fear is that they know that you can control. you know that right. you control fear not made a control you because your view of her to that on the ballot your courage you got to do what's right whether you're in the classroom and you've been on the battlefield. you need tell you you need three. one could you tell us why once he said it's like like other jobs you'd be like sitting in an office all day or some day you want to do would just get boring after

a few years but i know the military will give me a chance to reach out to others and also make me a better person that's why i want to join the military actually already doing a little teary sure botham's life. so when my classmate who was saying. you can't go wrong with the military it's a great stepping stone for whatever career you want to do. the military's great memory way you know it builds leaders every single day that we carries our country we can control more we can actually embrace and inspire more with that power that's why i think the military is like great things to do and that's why i joined. security gen beginning and i saluted the ship off right after graduation. seventeen years. signed up for three years in the army with the option of extending to eighty is a program. makes this possible. still in

school. every thursday he meets his trainers who prepare him for military service until he receives his obligatory diploma. the young man drives a sports car the money for it attack a restaurant the army has promised to teach him how to drive tanks.

so. yes we're going to be wrestling to do a presentation at your school on friday. will be out there and it's there to an area like this right in texas the high school market is definitely where recruiters want to be because that's where the majority of people want to join in the syria in august if you want to be able to afford them the opportunity to. cover nineteen different high schools in five colleges and i have to work on many. of them have assigned high schools that they should be in you know a lot. twice weeks geraghty says probably the biggest asset and as far as recruiting goes you know when we go out to the schools you know who we're looking

for. there's no conscription in the u.s. as in one hundred forty six other countries some recruiters have to sell a u.s. army to eighty thousand use a year two thousand and one law makes this easy schools must submit data on all the students to the pentagon so to can contact them directly at home otherwise funding is cut. it's quite a task right now i have i think i have fifty three future soldiers in our program at one point we were up to seventy five. and so it's a challenge you know and especially some of them being younger they you know you have to keep up with them and give them you know to do what they're supposed to but . you know it's it can be challenging.

and the fight for their heart starts in primary school every regiment of the fort hood base has set up a partnership with a school. this operation enticement to see soldiers spend hundreds of hours every year with these children they read to them go to the school canteen with them and help them with their homework. that. and i. think so just. like.

anyone i believe. form of early rising living along. with. forty percent of junior reservists enlist in the army after graduating. i'm pretty sure every parent has a son or daughter in the military would be in their afraid for their. for their child. from here on out imo i'm pretty much more sensible for your little federal but then another something good. our french president is or.

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