long to the junior. jr o.t.c. is a pentagon program. wonderful feel that your love for art next week right from head young. six year old three year olds not. up right at your point without crying. and. america has pledged to turn these children into heroes these junior troops include five hundred thousand miners across the united states they're the hope of a fearful country they're destined to defy tera the first generation post nine

eleven. s 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 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 a lot. then 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 finger nails right here what is authorized colors are. 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 regular teacher is a graduate she just a terrific 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 key is to do push ups but a regular teacher could you know as i want to you know become more of a better citizen in the country well i just want to become stronger physically and mentally ill come opposed to. this listen the space let. me just like listen i wasn't interested in. the specific interest. will cause 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 military starts preparing for war in afghanistan they need volunteers but there aren't any due to the impending.

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. 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. 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. i guess. a uniform 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. do not take up your clothes you do not have you don't think that you do not want your mum think over your clothes you carrying a forearm and this one. and. since september yes men has been leading the cadets she is the boss she inspects the troops. dealing with the army yeah because at school they were so used to like just doing everything maybe halfway and not actually giving it are hungry 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 out but i don't see. it. doesn't just teach these students to 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. the recruiters they leave their carts and these a different for others 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 will sister if the cadet is interested in going in the military but we don't recruit ourselves as 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 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 one of the through the district so we don't take our school money to pay its debts 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 could pay through the to the government to some programs to me so it's nice it's something we don't have to pay

for so. the program also includes morning and evening activities before and off to school formal training parades military music college god. the only is creative in how it uses military drills to inspire thousands of american youngsters to become soldiers. what was. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. 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 in my life turned on each parent. but then my feeling started to change you talked about war like it was again still some more fun to feel those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promise. to never be like it's one does not leave the funeral in the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with this one to. speak to you just now we know what they're takers. claimed that mainstream media has met its make. here's what people have been saying about rejected a knighthood to us exactly just pull on awesome the only show i go out of my way to launch you know what it is that really packs a punch. yeah it is the john oliver of marty america's doing the same we are

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rory fanning a former soldier opposes the system what he saw and experienced made him leave the army and since then he has somewhat to discourage use from joining his former employer. they're. not communicating the full story to young people they ask me call of duty is very popular first sure video game no law. it's plain 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. heart 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 the war these kids just don't hear the darker side. fanning used to be a special forces soldier and foolish in afghanistan. he tries to convince teaches.

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 that 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 bombs 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 close fifty public schools here in chicago they said there's no money for the schools so the millet. filling in the blanks the j r c operates in districts while statistics on ethnic breakdowns are prohibited in france not in the u.s. the cadets in chicago's jr. are made up of fifty four percent latino thirty seven percent african americans and only five percent caucasian yasmin's parents came to 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 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 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 j.-o. o.t.c. program with just two schools. new hampshire. population of both states is ninety percent white the army is active in the point 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 o.t.c. units in the lone star state after the nine eleven attacks before region deployed the most troops and also the most foreign back home nearby american

military base fort hood the army and its supporting agencies all the region's main employers. this is where the army has set up shooting ranges at schools and he's teaching students how to use guns. every morning an hour before these young fourteen year old texans practice shooting . they shoot about five hundred feet. leave here they can go and teach adults because many adults. especially kids that have. you know

a lot of safety classes. it's in the. future. you want to control the country we fear is that they that you can control. you know that right. you control fear not medic and troll you because the view. on the ballot your courage to do what's right whether you're in the classroom and even on the battlefield. three. tenets 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 a little scary shit. so when my classmates were 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. or. 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. he earned the money for it to attack a restaurant the army has promised to teach him how to drive tanks. or he will. be proud of where i came from.

and i'm. so. ready. to 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. 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 when 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. eighty thousand use a year two thousand and one law makes this easy schools must submit data on the only students to the pentagon so to can contact them directly at home otherwise funding is cuts. 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 believe and so it's a challenge you know on especially some of them being younger they you know you have to keep up with them and give all of you know to do what they're supposed to but. you know it's it can be challenging in.

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. he gets a lot on. and i. think

. anyone. really wants. the forty percent of junior reservists enlist in the army off to graduating. i'm pretty sure every parent as a son or daughter in the military would be a little afraid for their. for their child. so for me i'm pretty much before our little federal but then you know there.

are such. economic development is all about numbers really pleased to report this quarter we are one hundred six points. but what do we know about the other figures. when i think the fact that our c.e.o. mike do. over twenty million dollars last year more than one thousand times the average wal-mart. with all due respect i have to say

i don't think that's right. is that just how a free market would. people went from pretty simple financial lives pre nine hundred eighty to the point now where people are. just totally submerged in their financial accounts and they're all in debt and what exactly do. rome. people of catalonia went to the polls seeking independence.

it's taken these children. now it's threatens to take their future. the volcano here could erupt again at any time. most people have a strong choice. live in poverty. it's going to. put some following a different. to . the point that hope for a better life. when

the old make its manufacture consent to stoop to public wealth. when the right wing plus a some protect themselves. in the final merry go round be the one. doing the whole middle of the room sick. real news. or those like. you in the food cooking because they're good at.

douglas' cut her out and our. breaking news from art international a russian airstrike takes twelve high profile commanders apparently from the terror group in syria with its main leader apparently in critical condition coming in we'll give you more details also ahead the breakaway region a couple only says it will declare its independence from spain in just a matter of days now as over half a million go on strike against the spanish government. other notable news to keep an eye on today the king of saudi arabia makes his first ever official visit to russia where the monarch is set for what could be an easy told nonetheless for the .