[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [Ufpj-disc] Did you know you're an "influencer"?

[Brussel Morton K.]

  …this year, Congress voted to double the military's recruitment  
budget to more than $20 billion.. That's more than five times what  
the military spent on recruitment only five years ago, when the Army  
first went into Iraq. That's twenty billion dollars to bring more  
recruiters into schools that don't have art teachers or adequately  
funded libraries. And teachers, who might have a few ideas on how to  
better spend $20 billion of the taxpayer's money, will be on the  
receiving end of some of the ad campaigns generated by that money.  
This ios a quote from the message below. --mkb


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> From: Steve Burns <outreach at wnpj.org>
> Date: June 24, 2008 11:24:29 AM CDT
> To: ufpj-recruit at yahoogroups.com, ufpj-disc at lists.mayfirst.org
> Subject: [Ufpj-disc] Did you know you're an "influencer"?
>
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> The US Army is in trouble. As it fights an increasingly unpopular  
> war, as it struggles to meet its recruitment goals and calls on the  
> same soldiers to go back - again and again - to Iraq, the Army has  
> identified one key obstacle to the successful completion of its  
> "mission." And that obstacle is us.
>
> Parents and teachers, described by military recruiters as  
> "influencers", have been identified by the military as a threat its  
> ability to meet recruitment targets. As Maj. Gen. Michael D.  
> Rochelle put it, "Influencers are clearly having an impact right  
> now on our ability to successfully recruit -- unquestionably so."  
> The general expressed particular concern about parents who attempt  
> to shield their children from recruiters "who simply want to tell  
> the Army story, who we are and what it is we do for this great  
> nation." According to Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and  
> Readiness David Chu, "Our real challenge out there isn't the young  
> people ... it's parents, coaches, teachers ... who, when asked by a  
> young person, 'Well, Dad, Mom, should I do this' -- too often get a  
> sour and unsupportive answer."
>
> Teachers are also in the Army's sights. Parris Island spokesman Lt.  
> Scott Miller says, “We’re just trying to inform them. Are we trying  
> to win them? Yeah. We have a quota.” If recruiters successfully  
> target the teachers first, then they have, Miller says, “another  
> foot in the door, so to speak.”
>
> As anyone who has ever been "targeted" by the US Army can attest,  
> the Army has lots of tools it can bring to bear on those who get in  
> its way. And this year, Congress voted to double the military's  
> recruitment budget to more than $20 billion.. That's more than five  
> times what the military spent on recruitment only five years ago,  
> when the Army first went into Iraq. That's twenty billion dollars  
> to bring more recruiters into schools that don't have art teachers  
> or adequately funded libraries. And teachers, who might have a few  
> ideas on how to better spend $20 billion of the taxpayer's money,  
> will be on the receiving end of some of the ad campaigns generated  
> by that money.
>
> For example, here's an ad I found recently in my copy of AFT On  
> Campus, a publication put out to union members in higher education  
> by the American Federation of Teachers:
>
>
>
> Read the rest here…
>
>
>
> Steve Burns
>
> Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice
>
> 122 State St. #402
>
> Madison, WI 53703
>
> (608) 250 9240
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>
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