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Berkeley and the Marines
usmcnavgeek:
The recruiting office wasn't even an enlistment center; it was an officer selection office, so all they were doing was processing college graduates who wanted to be officers, not actively recruiting 17 year old kids from local high schools.
The whole 'Semper Fi' act is probably a little over the top, but let's face it; every OTHER city in the country lets recruiters operate, and they all get federal funding (or could if they lobbied hard enough for it, whatever). Congress needs to be able to register its displeasure somehow, and from what general opinions I've their displeasure mirrors the majority of their constituents, which is a (admittedly sometimes rare) good thing.
jhocking:
--- Quote from: negative creep on 13 Feb 2008, 12:52 ---That download doesn't work, Mr Hocking.
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Sorry to dredge up this off-topic bit again, but is the download working now? I just switched it to a new host.
negative creep:
Yes, it is. Thanks!
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: usmcnavgeek on 17 Feb 2008, 05:13 ---The recruiting office wasn't even an enlistment center; it was an officer selection office, so all they were doing was processing college graduates who wanted to be officers, not actively recruiting 17 year old kids from local high schools.
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This isn't really what it's about though. The problem isn't just dodgy tactics being used by the US armed forces to recruit people, it's what they do once they're in the armed forces that people are so against.
--- Quote ---The whole 'Semper Fi' act is probably a little over the top, but let's face it; every OTHER city in the country lets recruiters operate, and they all get federal funding (or could if they lobbied hard enough for it, whatever). Congress needs to be able to register its displeasure somehow, and from what general opinions I've their displeasure mirrors the majority of their constituents, which is a (admittedly sometimes rare) good thing.
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Perhaps Congress should look into why people are so appalled with the activities of their own country's armed forces that they wish to remove recruitment centres instead of withdrawing funding from unrelated activities as an act of revenge.
RedLion:
A lot of their recruiting tactics are underhanded and big on bullshit, though. Two of them more or less burst into my high-school band class two years ago and started talking about how we should all join the army band because "no one in the band gets sent overseas, seriously." My dad's a retired Colonel, and when I went home, I questioned him about that, and his response was "Shit. What? Those are always the first people to go overseas. They're not doing any important work; they're dispensable."
And in the Commons area of my school last year, the marines had some football throwing contest rig set up and would encourage all the kids to come play during our lunch hour--after which the marines would lecture the kids ad nauseum about how awesome they are. (Because throwing a football through a small hole is totally relevant to what the Marines do.)
That actually pissed me off enough that a group of friends and I went to the school Administration and somehow managed to get the principal to agree to stop them from pulling shenanigans like that again.
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