2008 Woodie Awards
From this morning’s Packet:
A locally produced film that could find its way into high school guidance departments across the country aims to counter the “seductive and often deceptive” tactics employed by military recruiters, its producers say.
The video, which is being created amidst a chorus of growing concern from parents about recruitment practices at area high schools, is titled “Before You Enlist” and is being produced by Princeton-based Telequest Inc. It will use interviews with combat veterans and family members of deceased military personnel to provide additional perspectives about life in the armed forces.
But representatives from the military deny that the recruitment practices targeted at young adults are deceptive, and they say that they simply want the same access to students afforded to college recruiters.
This is bad stuff, and clearly one symptom of the larger troop crisis we’re facing as a result of our overextension in Iraq and Afghanistan and mistreatment of the armed forces. The move to target high school students came as a direct consequence of the pressure Iraq has put on the all-volunteer army. It’s very wrong to subject high school students to this type of thing. Of course, a draft isn’t the right solution either- a genuine change in our foreign strategy is what’s needed, though I don’t think this lady has any good ideas toward that end.
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