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Yup. Although it's not generally 1 per school. More like 1 per 10 schools. No different than job recruiters for any other field.
well there's one difference at least
"How do you feel about killing innocent children in foreign countries?"
"Eh... I'm fine with that."
"Great! Welcome to Nestle!"
"How do you feel about funding groups of killers to fight proxy wars only to have them turn against us years later in a very long-con kind of scam to steal the natural resources of 9 different countries?"
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"Great! Your first mission is to protect that one warlord who set up a bed in an all-girls school to have sex with them."
You're going to need to be more specific, and maybe use a more accurate verb.
It's better if I just imply things. The idiots that believed all the propaganda about those wars won't figure out what I'm talking about.
Whoa there. That's the college job fair. The High School one is, "poverty tears collection specialist".
This made me cackle
No different form any other organization that prey upon our children
Prey? It's a path into the middle class for many people. Even during the forever wars there was 2/3rds of the force that never deployed.
Be it as it may, it's kinda sad that it is how you say. "Go out and fight against other humans to get yourself out of poverty".
Yeah it's not great but prey seems a bit.... Much.
Idk I don't want my kid anywhere near that shit
Sure. But for most of the military it really is just a normal job after basic. It can have some wild overtime hours but the benefits for someone who never leaves their desk are the exact same as for the guys in combat.
The administrators and the middle managers in the oil companies think they’re not contributing to climate change too, but they are wrong. Think about the comparison.
The personnel clerks are contributing to climate change? Okay, yeah. I don't think that's as big of a shocker as you think it is. Just about everyone I met in the military who believed in climate change had put 2 and 2 together about the military's emissions.
Are you trying to draw an analogy?
I don’t know, am I?
Huh, we had 7 for our school district (one for each branch, and I think the army and navy had two), but my high school alone did have just under 3000 kids.
We had all 7 of these guys (and one woman) going from class to class every day for a month giving four 90-minute presentations per day to pander and force-feed each individual classroom of ~30-50 students a glorified recruitment ad. They even set up one of the portable classrooms as a recruitment office for that month.
I'm curious, did the recruiters hand out forms to kids under 18 that required parent/guardian signatures?
I'm asking because ours did, and I could swear that these forms were a sort of pre-enlistment contract that needed parent/guardian signature in order to waive the 18+ requirement for agreeing to enlist. So although we wouldn't actually be enlisted until we turned 18, we could agree to enlist beforehand with a parent's signature. But, as strong as that memory is, I still can't help but doubt myself because of how insane and illegal that all sounds.
Enlistment papers are thick. Unless they were handing out packets it was probably just a permission slip. Also, while I could see one of them being shitty enough to try and trap kids into the military this way, there's no way the other 7 wouldn't protest and get in their way. And not even on moral grounds. They're all competing for recruits.
Wow, I didn't even consider that. It makes them seem so much less human to me, and so much more like a pack of hyenas.
Do American schools have a lot of job recruiters who have access to the kids private data?
No? They run tables at career fairs and beg for email addresses on their sign up sheets.