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 saviors 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 was a. jr o.t.c. is a pentagon program. lined up don't feel it should not for arcanite speak right from the 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. 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 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 is 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 got a little sports let me see goals come from back so with some fun stuff sitting 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. maybe that's why

we can get the kids to push up but a regular teacher. as a one of you know become more of a better citizen in a country just want to become stronger physically and mentally. just like i was interested. like. this. any question soul for. jr 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. 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. once again it's what i would call the game we give alternative is great after trainees 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. right before 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. yasmin is. ready for school she's been in the sea for four years. kind of excited because. you have. your actual. i guess legacy just something of. a uniform rules. the chaos for childhood shaped by

violence. on wednesday students some. 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. do not take up your clothes you do not have a rank you don't think of the gulf you do not want your mum think over your clothes you carrying your forearm and this one. and says. 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 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. 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 recruit ourselves it's a win win because at the college level if the kid meets the requirements he or she could get 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. 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 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 its 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 the to the army to see programs and so it's nice. something we don't have to pay for so.

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 a soldier that's. what the fuck. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to try to be for us this is what before three in the morning can't be good.

i'm interested always in the waters of my house which. this should. make this manufacture consent instead of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room signals. the real new. world. is made in america we can all those get a little bit because it was. possible more than you but i. know both of

you what it was but i guess sort of kind of the other side of this yes for. the national weather service in mount holly new jersey has issued a flash flood warning for southeastern montgomery county in southeastern pennsylvania southeastern bucks county in southeastern pennsylvania philadelphia county in southeastern pennsylvania eastern delaware county in southeastern pennsylvania until one forty five am monday at seven thirty million pm doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain moving into the warn area from the west flash flooding is expected to begin shortly in the areas of heaviest rain some locations that could experience flooding in philadelphia bensalem north esther

west north and east north and bristol doylestown conshohocken borough full cost and swarthmore rainfall amounts of two to four inches in a short amount of time are possible in the warning area do not drive through floodwaters the water may be deeper than you think it is a vehicle can easily become trapped in floodwaters endangering its occupants and those who come to their rescue if you live in a flood prone location be prepared to move to higher ground. off call of duty oh yeah well you can't turn off a war these kids don't hear the darker side. fanning 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 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 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 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 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 in the u.s. since chicago's j o o. are made up of fifty four percent latino thirty seven percent african americans and only five percent caucasian 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 do 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 a being away from home that 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 in this.

new 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 of. changes. 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. b.b. guns you know a lot of safety classes. it's

a big one. is if. you're the future of america you want to control the. fear is that you can control. you know that right. you control fear. if you go through view at. your courage to do what's right whether you're in the classroom and you've been on the battlefield . three. once. other jobs you'd be like sitting in an office saw there are 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. 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 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 a great thing to do and that's why i joined. the ship right after graduation. seventeen years of age 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 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 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's 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 august if you 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 i 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. probably the biggest asset and as far as recruiting goes you know when we go out to the schools who are looking for. this 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 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. 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 on a minute 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 the 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. because. it's. my time and i. like this i just. see. that you want to be. here like the

last. forty percent of junior reservists enlist in the army after graduating. i'm pretty sure every. son or daughter in. military would be in there afraid for their. for their child. for me i'm pretty much more sensible for our little federal but then another. are such as are.

so all this is all the good. so.

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