Setting the
Record Straight - JROTC Recruiting Proof
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"Policy Memorandum 50 - U.S. Army Recruiting
Command (USAREC) Partnership Initiatives"
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above memo is from U.S. Army Cadet Command orders JROTC teachers to help the
military recruit students and is offered to rebut claims that JROTC is not a
recruiting program. Click
here to read the memorandum. |
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We offer official documentation and
reinforcing statements as definitive proof that JROTC is a recruiting
tool.
Why is this important?
1. The UN Convention for the Protection of
Children prohibits military recruiting of youth under 16.
2. The false claim JROTC is not a
recruiting tool is promoted to prevent JROTC from being terminated in
high schools.
3. Illegal military recruiting is not
limited to JROTC but includes Pentagon-produced video games that target
13 year old children. For example, the America's Army "game" costs over
$6.3 million and has taught over 7.5 million children to kill as "first
person shooters."
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Quotes from military leaders
Consider the former United
States Secretary of Defense William Cohen referred to JROTC as "one of the best
recruitment programs we could have."1
In a February 2000 testimony
before the House Armed Services Committee, the armed service chiefs of staff
testified that 30%–50% of graduating JROTC cadets go on to join the military
(see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JROTC).
General James L. Jones,
Commandant of the Marine Corps testified that the value of the Marine JROTC
program "is beyond contest. Fully one-third of our young men and women who join
a Junior ROTC program wind up wearing the uniform of a Marine."
General Eric K. Shinseki,
Chief of Staff of the United States Army testified that "Our indications are
about 30 percent of those youngsters — we don't recruit them, as you know. We
are not permitted to do that. But by virtue of the things that they like about
that experience, about 30 percent of them end up joining the Army, either
enlisting or going on to ROTC and then joining the officer population."
General Michael E. Ryan,
Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force testified that "almost 50 percent
of the folks that go [...] out of the Air Force Junior ROTC go into one of the
Services by enlisting or going to ROTC or going to one of the academies."
Admiral Jay L. Johnson, Chief
of Naval Operations testified that "Even if the number is only 30 percent, that
is a good number. But think about what we get out of the other 70 percent. They
have exposure to us."2
General Colin Powell admitted
in his 1995 autobiography that "the armed forces might get a youngster more
inclined to enlist as a result of Junior ROTC."3
US Congress found in the
Recruiting, Retention, and Reservist Promotion Act of 2000 that JROTC and
similar programs "provide significant benefits for the Armed Forces, including
significant public relations benefits."4
Summary: JROTC a Trojan Horse for military recruiting
The Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines have
demonstrated that basic training adequately prepares citizens to assimilate
into military service. Military training is unique in our society because it
teaches methods, tactics, and strategies of killing. Except to serve as a
recruiting engine, there is no reason to link leadership development with
military training. Disguised as an education program, JROTC is a trojan
horse for Pentagon recruit high school students.
Special
notes:
Opposing
high school military training is no more anti-military than opposing high school
consumption of alcohol is anti-alcohol. The common thread in both is having the
courage to care for our children and realize they lack the wisdom in their
formative high school years to decide wisely. As a result of changing the
alcohol drinking age to 21, society has benefited greatly and many lives have
been saved.
Sources:
1Huet-Vaughn,
Emiliano (September/October 2001). School: A place to teach or to recruit?
10-11. The Human Quest. Retrieved on 2006-12-29.
22H.R.
4205 - Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001
before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, February 10,
2000.
3Stodghill,
Ron (March 2002). Class Warfare. Time Magazine. Retrieved on 2006-12-30.
4Recruiting,
Retention, and Reservist Promotion Act of 2000 (HR 4208) online at http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c106:H.R.4208.IH:
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