Tag: military recruitment
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Army recruiters tell deadly lies
Looking Back: Soldiers are put at risk of dying in combat, but did not really volunteer for the job they are doing. December 11, 2006 / John Hoff / The Minnesota Daily - Along a short stretch of Washington Avenue Southeast, you can join the army, the navy, and the Minnesota Army National Guard. It is amazing to walk into a recruiter's office with thoughts of joining the military. It is like ...
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Culture-Jamming the War Machine
November 16, 2022 / Rivera Sun / World BEYOND War - In the drizzling rain, I yank up the military recruitment sign and throw it into the tall grasses on the side of the road. If anyone asks, I ...
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Young America's Dilemma: The Predatory Choice Between Student Loan Debt and Military Enlistment
May 16, 2022 / Liz Walters / Common Dreams -This past January, student loan company Navient was made to cancel $1.7 billion in federal student debt in a federal settlement judged by Attorney General ...
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Recruitment, counter-recruitment and critical military studies
Introduction December 2016 / Matthew F. Rech / School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University - On 8 January 2002 in the US, George Bush Jr. signed into law an educational federal ...
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‘America’s Army’, the Pentagon’s Video Game, Shuts Down After 20 Years
For two decades, the U.S. Army used a video game to reach new recruits. It’s finally shutting it down. Matthew Gault | Vice - America’s Army: Proving Grounds, a game used as a recruitment tool by ...
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Ethnic Studies: Take One
Isidro Ortiz / Draft NOtices - The late 1960s and early ‘70s witnessed widespread calls for ethnic studies in higher education. Across the country, these calls translated into the establishment of ...