this is where they pierced america's heart 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 right from head young. six year old three year olds not. just the price you're born without 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 and 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 i 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 parts of fingernails right here what is authorized colors. 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 goals come from back so we come from structured environments and we know what it takes to create a structured environment regular teacher is

a graduate college again is just a terrific get 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 if you do pushups but a regular feature. as i want to you know become more of a better citizen in the country just want to become stronger physically and mentally. physically. just like i was interested. like. this 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 retired after serving thirty three years in the army supervises junior cadets or the junior r 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 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.

any 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 you don't you don't have you don't think that you are not valuable thing over here quote you carry it on 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 video you're like oh my god like they're so sick they have to do everything in unison whether you're shy or not your chance to step up to any problems so that the 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 but. i don't see. it. 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. yes. this. this all of this the recruiters they leave their carts and these a different routers navy army. marine corps and if a kid is interested in the military will give them the cart 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 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 wiley 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 our 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 health

teaches. yes it is which is a nice thing so and they're all it's here and they're retired military. officers and they come in. and they give back to the kids so they could pay through the to the government to some programs so it's nice something we don't have to pay for. the program also includes mooning and evening activities to school formal training parades military music on the college god. is creative in how it uses military drills to inspire and thousands of american youngsters to become soldiers. would.

say the solar industry is a job booster in california generates tens of thousands of jobs new york tens of thousands california is going to have a lot of jobs to the side or nobody is on this but they have a lot of desert obviously if they go solar they go a lot of job in texas and folks in texas going to say your ideology sucks we want to job this solar jobs you're out of office we're going to bring a folks to do it california's doing isn't that the way democracy works in america. credit is one of the basic instruments to drive an economy but it can also lead to tragedy i didn't. just i came to god and met the death star game and it was far enough. many lives have been broken really excessive to the banks going to. the banks but i just didn't think.

people see new future. you know you become ill you do job your relationship breaks down you become a casualty is. not sure. if you know what to do to build. a school. you can revolt against a dictator but what about after i think. people did not give much thought about that and so they weighed. the resolution does not nations. and certainly. states.

a foremost opposes the system. and experience made him leave the army and since then he has somewhat to discourage you from joining his former employer. they're. not communicating the full story. they ask me call of duty is a very popular first sure video game. play and they asked me is the military like call of duty. the vast majority of people who die in call of duty civilians. do you hear women and children screaming you know when they see their son or daughter child die in front of them a call of duty the videogame. turn off call of duty oh yeah well you can't turn off war. these kids don't hear the darker side. used 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 burke virtue of targeting so many innocent people we are 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 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 is. generally positive 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 on 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 all made up of fifty four percent latino thirty seven percent african-americans. and only five percent caucasians yasmin's 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. 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 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.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 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. which changes . the whole 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 know 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 fear not control you view. your courage to do what's right whether you're in the classroom. you've been on the battlefield. three. once he said like other jobs you'd be like sitting in an office saw there are some that 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 or. should. 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 it and inspire more. power 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 as it allows the army to enlist youngsters while is still in school. every thursday he meets his trainers to 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.

but so. you. see there's. yes we're going to be you were actually going 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 do that how often do you cover nineteen different high schools and 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 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 use a year two thousand and one law makes this easy schools must submit data on only 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 you know you have to keep up with them and. yvonne of united said to do what they're supposed to but. you know it's it can be challenging.

the fight for their hard stance 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. nearly. forty percent of junior reservists enlist in the army after graduating. i'm pretty sure every as a son or daughter in the military when they're afraid for their. for the child. for me i'm pretty much for our little federal but then another.

are such as are. all. imagined six thirty five and you have a career and a career involves using your i phone in your computer and things like that in an office and perhaps you sort of killings in excess are getting fatigued you could

have to stop doing all this in this kind of you live i mean it's must be frightening my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up learning it in a box. or out at a very strong magnetic field on the field in my head. i think it is like a real hard pressure my skin burned and that wireless access point there just continues on today 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. it was all they all.

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