as 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. like the feel. for our peak right from head to young. six year old three year olds not. just the price that you're born with that 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 feel for the country they're destined to defy tara the first generation post nine eleven. s. i 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 then new to the program they'll receive their uniforms today. take seats. in the u.s. army is teaching is 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 all 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 the holes come from back so we come from structured environments and we know what it takes to create a structured environment regolith teaches a graduate just a terrific and then they they start teaching but i don't think they really understand classroom management or mention 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 be you know become more of a better citizen in the country and well i just want to become stronger physically and mentally most of those things would be the sleepless facelifts. just like listen i was interested. to see this interest. will put like. is this. any questions for.

the j r o t c program was founded in one thousand nine hundred sixteen. 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 off to serving thirty three years in the army supervises junior cadets well the junior c. . program is really about citizen ship and it's about. teaching young boys and girls high school age young men and women about service

and 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 is especially useful for fighting gangs. for neighborhoods harlem high school another one finger and so south and west ten on average be the. once again it's what i would call the anti-gay 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. 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. are past four in the morning.

yasmin is seventeen. getting ready for school she's been in the o.t.c. for four years. our kind o. excited to wear it because. when you put it on when you have. your actual cord i'm. johnny i guess legace just something that. we're not. without. a uniform and rules. over chaos childhoods shaped by violence. on wednesday students. three hundred eighty cadets have to wear the uniform one in five students has opted for the army. starts with a troop inspection. i

didn't take up your coat you don't have a rank you don't think i owe you not for your mum think over your coat you carry it on your forearm i missed the point. and. since september yes man has been leading the cadets she is the boss she inspects the troops. billiken with the army yeah because it's all like we're so used to like just doing everything maybe halfway and not actually giving it our hundred and when you feel like the army videos 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 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.

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 that 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 cards. but it's. this. all of. the recruiters they leave their cards and this is a different routers navy army. marine corps and if it is interesting in the military will give them the card and they contact the recruiter and the recruiter. or assist them in joining the military and that's why i said

that we really don't. recruit we'll sisters 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 four rod 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

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 to have them teaches. yes it is which is a nice thing sal and they're all it's very they're retired military. officers and they come in. and they give back to the kids so they can pay through to the government program. so it's nice it's 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 college god. the army is creative in how it uses military drills to inspire and thousands of american youngsters to become soldiers.

here's what people have been saying about rejected and i just pulled. off the only show i go out of my way to talk you know what it is that really packs a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than blue things that some people you've never heard of love redacted tonight the president of the world bank very. seriously he sent us an e-mail.

economic development is all about numbers really pleased to report this quarter we are one hundred six. but what do we know about the other figures. that. twenty 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. still 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 devoid society.

the part of the government tried to do. might be making things worse. by saying this is not work this is. hopelessly disastrously wrong. a form of opposes the system. makes perience made him leave the army and since then he has so much a disco as 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 video game. play and they asked me is the military like all. duty as i call it

a 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 call of duty the videogame. 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 food in afghanistan. he tries to convince teaches. 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 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 geraghty 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 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. the j r o t c operates in

districts while statistics on ethnic breakdowns are prohibited in france not in the u.s. since chicago's j r c are made up of fifty four percent latino thirty seven percent african-americans and only five percent caucasians 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 graduates she dreams of going to university and becoming a social worker. 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. people say. because they feel they were maybe not born in the united states and they feel like that's a great thing something may this. be. the 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 in 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 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 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 hundred feet. which. is when they leave here they can go and teach adults because many adults on how to safely handle rifles. especially other kids that have. you know a lot of safety classes. it's a big. the country we fear is that they that you can control. you know that

right. you control fear not american draw you because your view. on the bad 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 teary i'm sure. 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. 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 is 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. attack a restaurant the army has promised to teach him how to drive tanks.

or he will. be proud of where i came from you know. all the. people. i know. 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 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 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 sell a u.s. army 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 cut. out. 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 and especially some of them being younger they you know you have to keep up with them and keep all of 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 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.

you can see. and i. like this i just. see. what you want to. hear.

forty percent of junior reservists enlist in the army after graduating. all. i'm pretty sure every parent that has a son or daughter in the military would be a little afraid for their well for their child. from here on out imo i'm pretty much more sensible for our little federal but then another something good. are such as this or.

i mean always gives yeah you know until you go into her church or those are the you know mr wilson is going. to go into another bizarre today didn't intend to do that then. you have. to go to war if you will your view of it is to believe also the world is bush the glad i wish i'd got the time to remember the one thing nobody can take on but. i feel this way or my got up out of the line down and you know i think you're going to fade out the impulse nguyen and we're not going to stumble into the we're going to shoot me in the. streets in the future. me and. you will become worthless.

i have the absolute conviction that cindy europe. and russia. have a common interest to look at closer call gratian and to see why i seem to be so important to mobilize driving force in debian in this community but also we in culture entertainment and sports we need to you know to bring it to two societies much closer to. los angeles the city of luxury and fame but also an alarming number of people living in the streets. the simple fact in l.a. is there's just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided

to come in there's nowhere to come in and it's been a struggle. to get this man found his own response of the problem and constructed dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing in order to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle but do the authorities accept such to lucian a tiny house on a city parking space is not a solution. someone monitoring the site otherwise it will be a free for all and is there a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. and . i am. going to end. it. but. look into it knowing as.

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