Military recruiters have increasingly resorted to overly aggressive tactics and even criminal activity to attract young troops to the battlefield, congressional investigators say.
According to service data provided to the GAO, substantiated cases of wrongdoing jumped by more than a third, from about 400 cases in 2004 to almost 630 in 2005. Meanwhile, criminal cases — such as sexual harassment or falsifying medical records — more than doubled in those years, jumping from 30 incidents to 70.
There are some 22,000 personnel working for the military's recruiting program, which cost more than $1.5 billion this year. On staff are some 14,000 "frontline" recruiters who must enlist two applicants per month.
"Given the large numbers of service members DOD must recruit every year, there is ample opportunity for recruiter irregularities to occur," the report said, using the acronym for the
Department of Defense.
The military's desperation is growing and it falls to every parent to keep their children safe from these predators. Allowing our children to be recruited during this time, would be allowing them to engage in the criminal behavior that we find our country conducting in Iraq.
Haven't we lost enough of our children?
I support our military when it is protecting our country and providing assistance to other lands but I will not support what is happening in Iraq, and I will certainly not allow my children to take part in it.
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