these recruits are still in school they're between fourteen and seventeen years old and belong to the junior. jr o.t.c. is a pentagon program. wonderful feel and should not for our next week right from head young. six year old three year old signed. up right at your point without crying. by. hand. on. america has pledged to

turn these children into heroes these junior troops include five hundred thousand miners across the united states they're the hope of a fearful country they're destined to defy tera the first generation post nine eleven. s. i 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. i i i. these youngsters are in year eight and then new to the program they'll receive their uniforms today. take seats.

the u.s. army is teaching at more than three thousand public schools students who aren't 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. then facing a four year program created unfunded by the pentagon lots of finger nails 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 so we come from structured environment and we know what it takes to create a structured environment regolith teachers they graduate she just

a terrific and then they they start teaching but i don't think they really understand classroom management or mention large groups of people in different. different ways of doing it like we do this and maybe that's why we can get the keys to do push ups but a regular teacher could you know as i want to be you know become more of a better citizen in the country and well i just want to become stronger physically and mentally most of those things would be no listen the space was. just like listen i wasn't interested. this is the public interest. will push i would like to say is this like this this is all about what any question so far. j r o t c program was founded in one thousand nine hundred sixteen. or one but over time it's in. 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. the junior c. . program is really about citizenship it's about. teaching young boys and girls high school age young men and women about service and 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. 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 trainee more than ten thousand adolescents the authorities accept this militarization of education especially useful for fighting gangs. for neighborhoods harlem high school another one finger and so south and west ten an area to be the rough once. again it's what i would call the anti-gay we give alternative is great after these things are 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. veterans of iraq and afghanistan.

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. past four in the morning. yasmin is seventeen. is getting ready for school she's been in the o.t.c. for four years. i was kind of excited to wear it because it just looks so clean when you put it on when you have. your actual court on. monday

i guess legace just something that our parents. were not to get involved with. a uniform rules. over chaos for childhood by violence. students. three hundred eighty cadets have to wear the uniform one in five students has opted for the army. with a troop. didn't take up because you don't have your own oh you don't know what your monthly over here called you carrying a gun i miss. you. and good there. since

september yes men has been leading the cadets she is the boss she inspects the troops. billick out 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 feel like the army videos you 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 problem so that makes you a quite comfortable with yourself and things you out of your shell so pretty much gives you that confidence but. this trait again if you let it. be 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 kes and is the so decision maker regards that 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. but. this is this all of. the recruiters they leave their cards and this is a different routers navy army. marine corps and if it is interested in the military we'll 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 our cells it's a win win because at the college level if the kid meets. the requirements here she

could get either a four rod 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 it 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 nancy wiley headmistress at the hubbard school is pragmatic. c.p.s. is struggling sometimes you know financially so we have to be real careful about our how we promote programs and how we finance programs and share to some program is one of the through the district so we don't take our school money to pay it and that's from teaches. yes it is which is

a nice thing so and they're all it's here they're retired military. officers and they come in. and they give back to the kids so they get paid through the to the army to some program and this is me so it's nice 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 and the color guard. the army is creative in how it uses military drills to inspire thousands of american youngsters to become a soldier that's. what. i'm john harshman i'll give you what the mainstream media can't help the big picture.

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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 a 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 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 virtue of targeting so many innocent people. creating the conditions for more terrorist attacks. there's an important statistic you know between nine hundred eighty and two thousand and one there were 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 bombs around the world with ninety percent aimed at the us us interests. i'm lucky if i speak to three schools here because. 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. unfortunately so it's hasn't been easy 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 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 fronts 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. many things at the same time and i know with being in 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 feel they. 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. 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 and. these young fourteen year old texans practice shooting. about five hundred feet. 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 pride in our 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 country we continue 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 your view at her to that on the ballot your courage you've got to do what's right whether you're in the classroom and you've been on the battlefield pounding you need tell you need three. increase as 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 ship of 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 is great memory weight you know he 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 because he and i started 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 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 to attack a restaurant the army has promised to teach him how to drive tanks.

so. yes we're going to be wrestling to do your school on friday. will be out there and it's there to the 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 and. not have to work on any. of them have assigned high schools that they should be in you know a lot. twice weeks to see is probably the biggest asset and as far as recruiting goes you know when we go out to the schools they 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 youths 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 all of you know to do what they're supposed to. 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. or was really nice and loving the last. forty percent of junior reservists enlist in the army after graduating. i'm pretty sure every as a son or daughter in the military would be in their afraid for their. other child. for me i'm pretty much worse off before our little federal but then another.

are such as are. all the world history and all the news companies merely players but what kind of parties are in t. america play marty america offers more artsy american. anyways the news landscape is just like this either real news fake news good actors bad actors and in the end you could never hear on. so much park and all the

world's a stage all the world's a stage all the world's a stage and we are definitely a player. i do not know if the russian state hack into john podesta emails and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not provided. to support his claims of russia i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing three months before the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied the deep n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the us. the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an echo chamber for government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is a fight.