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. lined up don't feel. not for our. right from head young. six year old three year olds not. just the price 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. and these youngsters are in year eight 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 lots of fingernails right here what are some authorized colors that will. 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 those come from back so we come from stuff to them by us and we know what it takes to create a structured environment regular teacher is a 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 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 feature. as

a one of you know become more of a better citizen in a country just want to become stronger physically and mentally. i was interested. this is it. like. this. 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 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. 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 once. again it's what i would call the game 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 legacy. rules. the chaos for childhood shaped by violence.

on wednesdays 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. to take up your clothes you don't have you don't think up close you do not want your mum think over your clothes you carrying a forearm i missed one. and sit there. since september yasmin has been leading the cadets she is the boss she inspects the troops. dealing 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 the way for a comfortable with yourself and things you are yourself so pretty much gives you that confidence but. that's right again if you let it but. i don't 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 sergeants business. yes.

this. this all of this 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 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 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 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 funded through the district so we don't take our school money to pay it and that's really teaches. yes it is which is a nice thing so and they're all military they're retired military. officers and they come in. and they give back to the kids so they get paid through the to the government to some programs to me so it's nice it's 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 college god. me is creative in how it uses military drills to inspire and thousands of american youngsters to become soldiers. you can revolt against a dictator but what about the day after i think we as libyan people

did not give much thought about facts and so they waged old fashioned off the resolution does not build nations. and certainly does not build states. but. it was. kind of it was. just she refused. to sit good. for immigrants it's. never really know for sure but this is.

a form of opposes the system. of the army and since then he has some want to discourage use from joining his full name. 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 people 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. turned off call of duty oh yeah. these kids don't hear the darker side. to be a special forces soldier. unforeseen 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 is 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

bombs around 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 i took a shot we closed 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 cool conditions yes my parents came to go thirty years ago from mexico they were in town. 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 it to 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 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 point five for. every morning an hour before class these young fourteen year old texans practice shooting.

and. they shoot about five hundred feet between five and six hundred feet a second it's a very powerful. changes. it's often. the hope is 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 pellet rifle b.b. guns you know they don't have a lot of safety classes. very . good to be safe. 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 if you're not medic and you go through view. your courage you got to do what's right whether you're in the classroom and you've been on the battlefield . he said it once 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 already doing. so with my classmates who are 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 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 called 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. so. there you. are you. see there's. yes we're going to be we're 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. cover nineteen different high schools in five colleges and have twelve recruiters there work on me so all of them have assigned high schools that they should be in you know at least twice a week she sees 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. eighty thousand use a year two thousand and one law makes this easy schools must submit data on 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 and especially some of them being younger you know you have to keep up with them and give them you know to do with they're supposed to. 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. that.

kind. he gets. and i. like this i just. see. that he want to be. formal nearly lost. forty percent of junior reservists enlist in the army after graduating.

i'm pretty sure every has a son or daughter in the military when they're afraid for their. child. from here on out i'm pretty much before our little federal but then another. are such as are. all.

imagined six thirty five and you have a career and career involves using your i phone in your computer and things like that in an office and perhaps you sort of getting to it circular. you could have to stop doing all this and this is tell you lou the minutes must be from 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 held in my head. think of it like a real hard pressure my skin burned and that wireless access point there just continues on saying 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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that's a very rough rugged terrain you saw it's rough climates and you have to fight to be able to them. it was gunshots on top of them and so many friends say what happened in the morning and i mean. you don't know. you know i don't when you see a better body in the trouble in the city to participate in the good. old. you don't think about this this soldier on the. streets like any other and other

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