A New York Times report has found that enrollment in the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC), a Pentagon-funded program designed to groom children for military service, is increasingly becoming mandatory in US high schools.
A New York Times report has found that enrollment in the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC), a Pentagon-funded program designed to groom children for military service, is increasingly becoming mandatory in US high schools.
They’re having a really hard time keeping up numbers. Not enough people volunteering, plus with all the shitty food Americans eat (result of poverty and massive deregulation of the food industry), a lot of the people who do volunteer simply don’t meet physical standards.
I’d guess too that if you spend three decades inculcating Randian individualism into people, you find – surprise! – that they’re not particularly good at following orders.
Also the Iraq war revealed to a generation that you are really just fighting for the ruling class.