> Children Recruited in the USA: ’Enlistment bonuses’ offered to 14 yr olds
22 April 2005, 13:52
When I was in high school the recruitment was pretty intense, and that was in the 1970s, just after the end of the draft. It did not start at age 14, but it was there, mostly in the form of mailers, but there were also people who would come to school to "speak," and it was to extol the virtues of the Army life, promises of paid college. It was a standard part of guidance counseling, that that was an option. I think the article is just a hoax too, but usually when someone writes an April Fool’s Day thing ridiculing current attitudes by hypothesizing an extreme end of a current trend, there’s more humor. This article has no humor.
When I was in high school the recruitment was pretty intense, and that was in the 1970s, just after the end of the draft. It did not start at age 14, but it was there, mostly in the form of mailers, but there were also people who would come to school to "speak," and it was to extol the virtues of the Army life, promises of paid college. It was a standard part of guidance counseling, that that was an option. I think the article is just a hoax too, but usually when someone writes an April Fool’s Day thing ridiculing current attitudes by hypothesizing an extreme end of a current trend, there’s more humor. This article has no humor.