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. like the film feel it should not for art and speak right from head to young. six year old three year olds sign. up right at your point without crying. i. think. 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. 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 they're new to the program they'll receive their uniforms today. 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 i 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 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 teachers they graduate 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 kids 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 with. this list spaceless. just like listen i wasn't interested in. this case of interest. will go as i would like to say stuff like this as well but any question soul for. the j r o t c program was founded in one thousand nine hundred sixteen. or one but over time its influence waned it was only after nine eleven that president george bush revitalized its image shortly thereafter the middle. 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 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. 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 or tougher neighborhoods harlem high school another one finger and so south and west ten an era to be the once again it's what i would call the we give alternative is great after kids 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 they guard some veterans of iraq and afghanistan. i go for the 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. he's 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 on your actual court i'm. johnny i guess legace just something that our parents. were not to get involved with.

a uniform rules. over chaos 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 inspection. didn't take that because you don't have a you don't end up you don't know what you want that over here quote you carrying a gun i miss. you. and. since september yasmin has been leading the cadets she is the boss she inspects the troops. you look at what the i mean 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 oh my god like they're so sick they have to do everything in unison whether you're shy or not you're challenged to step up to any apollo 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 but. 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 kes and is the so decision maker of guns 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 needs to requirements he or she could get a full ride for 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. 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 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 chair to see program is funded through the district so we don't take our school money to pay to have teaches. yes it is which is a nice thing so and there are military there retired military. officers and they come in. and they give back to the kids so they could pay through to the army to

see program 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 after school formal training parades military music on the color guard. the army is creative in how it uses military drills to inspire thousands of american youngsters to become soldiers. what. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. you're out to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i

never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath . but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was a game still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with death this one difference i speak to now because there are no other takers. to blame that mainstream media has met its maker. they all. the boss or.

so. yes this is all the books. they put themselves on the line. to get accepted over.

to the right to be press that's what the fuck. can't be good. i'm interested always in the archives of our. city. opposes the system. leave the army and since then he has someone to discourage use from joining his film employ. they're. not communicating the full story. 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 of 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. 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 one 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

bombs around the world with ninety percent aimed at the u.s. and u.s. interests. 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. for it i mean it's a perk arius work environment. so it's. the us 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 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 yes my parents came to go thirty years ago from mexico they rented 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 worker. 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 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. cities. 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. every morning an hour before these young fourteen year old takes practice shooting.

about five hundred feet. teach. because many adults. and rifles and especially other kids that have pellet rifle b.b. guns you know they don't a lot of them haven't been to safety class. kind of pride in our states of america and carry elections and actually gets to the next one. is if. 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 of her to that on the ballot your courage going to do what's right whether you're in the classroom and even on the battlefield. you need tell you you need three. in 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 ship of his 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. the military because he and i saluted the ship off right after graduation. seventeen years. of age. 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. they are. 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. twice weeks gerrity c. is probably the biggest asset and as far as recruiting goes you know we go out to the schools who are 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 this students to the pentagon so took recruiters 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 especially some of them being younger they you know you have to keep up with them and keep all of 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.

and. so i just. think. any one of the. formal fairly nice living along. with. the forty percent of junior reservists enlist in the army

after graduating. i'm pretty sure every parent that has a son or daughter in the military would be in there afraid for their well for their child. from here on out i'm pretty much more sensible for our little federal but then another something good. are such a business or. imagined

. six thirty five if you have a what career and career involves using your i phone in your computer and things like that in an office. perhaps she sort of getting xenix or. kids. are going to have to stop doing this and this is tell you lou the minutes must be frightening my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up winning it and i box . at a very strong magnetic field held in my head. it's like a real hard pressure on my skin burned and bad wireless access point it's just continuous all day with our students in the schools. we are just continually bathing our citizens in this microwave radiation it is certainly electro small and it's getting worse.

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