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 own 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. funded feel. not for arcanite speak right from the head young. six year old three year olds not. upright you're born without price. 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 tera 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 i. these youngsters are in year eight and then new to the program they'll receive their uniforms today. take seats. in 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 you're. facing

a four year program created unfunded by the pentagon parts of fingernails right here what is authorized colors. let me see your nails all right 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 goals come from back so we come from structured environment and we know what it takes to create a structured environment regolith each as they 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 and different. different ways of doing it like we do this and maybe that's why we can get the key is to do push ups but a regular teacher could you know as i want. you know become more of

a better citizen in a country just want to become stronger physically and mentally. i was interested. this is interest. like. this with any questions for. the j r 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 well the junior t.c. . program is really about citizen ship and it's about. teaching young boys and girls high school age 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 is especially useful for fighting gangs or tougher neighborhoods.

what i would. give. the army is a good gang as a counterweight to the violent gangs last year three hundred. thirty one died. to protect students security for their way home. veterans of iraq and afghanistan. 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 the

street there's a curfew for people under twenty one starting at nine in the evening. district in the city's south. past four in the morning. yasmin is seventeen. ready for school she's been in the jail for four years. i know excited to wear it because. when you put it on when you have. your actual court i'm. finally i guess legace just. a uniform rules. over chaos childhood.

it's. on wednesdays students so most of. 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. didn't take up your clothes you don't have a rank you don't think i owe you not for your mum think over your clothes you carrying your forearm i missed one. and. since september yes man has been leading the cadets she is the boss she inspects the troops. feel like i'm with the army yeah because at school like 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 read again if you let it. run its own see. it. 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 cards. this.

this. this all of. the recruiters they leave their carts and these a different routers navy army. marine corps and if it 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 will 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 scholarship a 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 only headmistress at the hub of 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 pay the. teaches. yes it is which is a nice thing so they're all it's here they're retired military. officers and they come in. and they give back to the kids so they could pay through to the program. so it's nice it's something we don't have to pay for.

the program also includes morning and evening activities to school formal training parades military music college. is creative in how it uses military drills to inspire thousands of american youngsters to become soldiers. here's what people have been saying about reject. the only show i go out of my way to. really packed a punch oh yeah john oliver of our three americas. we are apparently better than. some see people you've never heard of love redacted the night president of the world bank very. seriously send us an e-mail.

to 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 a rush a truck strange bedfellows. seemed wrong. to shape out. because the ticket and in. it was betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. and again this is how. the economy is built around.

washington washington. voters elected the businessman to run this country business. you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. fanning a former soldier opposes the system. made him leave the army and since then he has someone to discourage use from joining his former employer. they're. not communicating the full story to people they ask me call of duty is a very popular first video game. play and they ask me is the military like call of duty. vast majority people who do the civilians they said. 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 well you can't turn off these kids just don't hear the darker side. to be a special forces soldier and foolish 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 birth virtue of targeting so many innocent people. we were only creating the conditions for more terrorist attacks. there's an important statistic you know between one nine hundred eighty and two thousand and one there are three hundred eighty four suicide bombs around the war. directed at the u.s. and u.s. interests since two thousand and one over twenty five hundred suicide. with

ninety percent aimed at u.s. interests. 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. rock the boat. talk to the kids. fortunately 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 closed fifty public schools here they said 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 you do travel a lot which is awesome but i don't think i would be able to handle a being away from home that long some people say. because

they are they. maybe not born in the united states and they feel like that's a great thing something in this. the geographic allocation of the program shows discrepancies. for instance there's only one school in montana. program with just two schools in. the population states is ninety percent white the army is active in the major

cities in the. states. specially in the south. texas there are more than two hundred. deployed troops and also most foreign 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. pledge allegiance to the high states of america and carry elections and actually gets to be one of the many or is it. you are the future of america you want to control the type country we've continued to have fear is that they know that you can control. you know you know that right. you control fear

not made a control you because of you at her to that on the ballot your courage to do what's right whether you're in the classroom and even on the battlefield coming you need tell you need three. ingredients and this once again 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 military should both in this 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 care is 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 because he and i started the ship off right after graduation. seventeen years. signed up to three years in the army with the option of extending to eighty is a program. makes this possible. still in school. every day 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 rushing in to do a presentation at your school on friday. they are. there to an area like this right in texas there's

a 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 and. not have to work on any. of them have assigned high schools that they should be in you know a lot. twice weeks or to see is 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 enticements the 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. formal fairly nice and loving the last. 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 before our little federal but then another. are such as are.

read it as one of the basic instruments to drive an economy but it can also lead to tragedy i did it i took a line just i can't be and that the debts ty came to and it was not. many times have been broken really. excessive the banks going to. be. the banks but i didn't think. it was a bad. people see new future bad things happen you know you become ill. the relationship breaks down you become a casualty is a nice long term or is there a way out of those actually come to a bit of know would like to ditch. the scale which.

trafficking organizations are very sophisticated and they function very much like a global corporation have different components components that engage in money laundering and you know the. security forces that. this. is going to was. it was it. was. just a scene of.

where they blew you won't get a good. it's. never really know for sure but this is. enough. when i started no i. i i i. i i was i. was young i.

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