Army Lowers Standards
Another increasingly unpopular war, in Iraq, is largely responsible for making it harder for Army recruiters to find 80,000 more young Americans who are willing to serve their country from a pool of some 60 million candidates ages 18 to 35.
“The biggest problem today is parents,” said Staff Sgt. Kenneth Bishop, an Iraq war-veteran recruiter based in High Ridge, Mo. “A lot of young men and women want to enlist, but their parents are afraid for them.”
Or as Sgt. 1st Class Timothy Waud, a career recruiter based in Simi Valley, Calif., put it: “(Parents) say they don’t want to send their son or daughter off into danger. There’s a lot of misconceptions about Iraq. Frankly, percentage-wise you face more of a risk driving on the freeways out here.” (source)
Yeah, we all read about all the “misconceptions” on Iraq every day in the news; about all the car bombs, suicide bombers, and the daily tally of our dead soldiers.
I wonder if Sgt. Waud has been to Iraq? It’s easy to say such things sitting in a recruiting office in Simi Valley, California.
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My opinion on gays in the military has always been the same before and after i discovered i was "diffrent" than the other guys i knew: If gays want to be in the military let them, in fact if any one is actually suicidal enough to "want" to be in the military let them! that way maybe some of us who love life our families and our country will have a better chance at enjoying our lives and living them without some jar head recruitment officer up in our faces every time we go to the mall. i do see it a bit diffrently now that the war is being used as a means of protecting oil investments but hell if kids cant see the lie if they wont at least pick up a book and see that this war is an almost exact re-enactment of viet nam or that Bush's regime is almost parellel to that of Hitler's then what can ya do. All we can do is advocate, advocate, advocate and i know the gay community understands the value of advocacy as good as any one. well just a thought, gee i sure do seem to have alot of em today:)