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 i i. and these youngsters are in year eight and then new to the program they'll receive their uniforms today. take siri.

to 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 hurt your ears. they're facing a four year program created unfunded by the pentagon rights of fingernails right here what are some 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 got a little sports let me see goals come from back so with some fun stuff to them by and we know what it takes to create a structured environment regular teaches they graduate she just gets if it and then they they start teaching but i don't thing. they really understand management or

demand into large groups of people. different. different ways of doing like we do this and maybe that's why we can get the kids to push up but a regular teacher you know as i want to be you know become more of a better citizen in the country just want to become stronger physically and mentally. seriously. just like i was interested. this is this. course i like. 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 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 banjo retired off to serving thirty three years in the army supervises junior cadets or the junior o.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 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 once again it's what i would call the anti-gay we give alternative is great after needs 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 provided security for their way home the guards are mostly veterans of iraq and afghanistan. right before 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. in the morning. ready for school she's been in the sea for four years. kind of excited because. you have. your actual.

i guess legace just. a uniform rules. over chaos for childhood shaped by violence. on wednesday students and 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 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 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 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 comfortable with yourself and things you are yourself so it pretty much gives you that confidence but. that's read again. but. i don't 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 sergeants business. it's. this. this all of. the recruiters they leave their carts and these a different routers navy army. marine corps and if a kid 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 don't. recruit we'll sister if the cadet is interested in going in the military but we don't crowd ourselves it's a win win because at the college level if the kid meets the requirements he or she could get a four 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. 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 paid for 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 some programs and 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 term. your act up 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 bet. but then my feeling started to change you talked about war like it was again 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 it's consumed with death this one difference i speak to you now because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker. peers will people been saying about rejected the night i was there was actually just full on ourselves of the only show i go out of my way to logically what it is that really packs

a punch. yeah it is the john oliver of our three americas good to say we are apparently better than booth nothing's better such as a stable you'd ever heard of love or die. back to the night president of the world bank take. me seriously send us an e-mail because there's the survival guide book stay single malt to start. there are you going to get a. good repatriations look at the rest the seventy years. of the separate kaiser or. manufacture come sentenced to the public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the final go round

if. we can all middle of the room sick. fanning a former opposes the system what he saw and experienced 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 so. they ask me call of duty is a very popular first sure video game a lot of kids play and they asked me is the military like call of duty as i call it a vast majority of people who die in call of duty civilians they said. do you hear women and children screaming you know when they see their son or daughter child die

in front of them call of duty the video game. turn off call of duty oh yeah well you can't turn off war and a lot of these kids just don't. here the darker side. finding used to be a special forces soldier on fourteen 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 only the 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 charity c. program has looked. generally positive with the teachers you know because it's a positive program don't necessarily want to rock the boat by bringing someone like me and talk to the kids. and i don't fault them for it i mean it's a perk arius work environment for so many teachers 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 in the military than advocation we close fifty public schools here in chicago they said there's no money for the schools so the military is filling in the blanks. see operates in districts while statistics on ethnic breakdowns in fronts not in the

u.s. since chicago's see 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 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 she'll graduate 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 a being away from home that. people say. because

they feel they were maybe not born in the united states and they feel like that's a way of integrating something may this. be. the geographic allocation of the program shows discrepancies. for instance there's only one school in montana offering a jr o.t.c. program with just two schools in new hampshire. the population of both states is ninety percent white the army is active in the poor districts of major cities in the so-called failing states of the rust belt and especially in the south.

particularly in texas there are more than two hundred j.-o. o.t.c. . units in the lone star state after the nine eleven attacks before worth region deployed the most troops and also the most foreign back home nearby is the largest american military base fort hood the army and its supporting agencies other regions main employers. this is where the army has set up shooting ranges at schools and he's teaching students how to use guns or five. every morning an hour before class these young fourteen year old texans practice shooting.

they shoot about five hundred feet between five and six hundred feet a second it's a very powerful. changes. when they leave here they can go and teach adults because many adults don't know how to safely handle rifles. especially other kids that have. you know they don't have a lot of safety classes. it's a big thing. is if. you are the future of america you want to control the. fear is that you can control. you know that right. you

control the fear. view. your courage to do what's right whether you're in the classroom. you. need three. tennis once like other jobs you'd be like sitting in an office 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 shit . so when my classmate 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 our that's why i think

the military is like great things to do and that's why i joined. the ship right after graduation. seventeen years of age saul has signed up for three years in the army with the option of extending to eighty is a program future soldier makes this possible. the army to enlist youngsters while is 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 he earned the money for it at attack a restaurant the army has promised to teach him how to drive tanks. or he will. come back and look back on the memories they're proud of where i came

from you know. they're all there. really. you know. it's. kind of. but so. you. see there's. yes we're going to be wrestling to do a presentation at your school on friday. french will be out there and it's there to an area like this right in texas there is

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 obviously want to be able to afford them the opportunity to. cover nineteen different high schools in five colleges and have twelve recruiters there work on and so all of them have assigned high schools that they should be in you know at least twice a week. probably the biggest asset and as far as recruiting goes you know we go out to the schools you know 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 day so on the only students to the pentagon. 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 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.

because. he gets it. and i. like this i just. think. that he want to be. here like the last. forty percent of junior reservists enlist in the army after graduating.

i'm pretty sure every. a son or daughter in the military when they're afraid for. their child. from here on i'm pretty much more sensible for our little federal but then another something that. our french prisoners are.

imagine being a six thirty five and you have a clue what a career and a career involves using your i saw in your computer and things like that being in an office and perhaps you sort of getting zealots circular to have to stop doing all this in this poll you look at the minutes before my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up winning it in a box. or out at a very strong magnetic field on a cart held in my head. it's like a real hard pressure my skin burns and that wireless access point out there 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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if. r.t. correspondent is caught up in unrest this she reports on the latest clashes between palestinians and israeli police in east jerusalem. rusher in the syrian moderate opposition agree on terms for a first deescalation zone located near the capital damascus. and interpol releases a list of one hundred seventy three islamic state suicide bombers it says could be preparing to carry out new attacks in europe. plus activists see monitoring how migrants heading to europe are dealt with by coast guards and then she.