The systematic and purposeful Betrayal of
the American Soldier

Important Information for High School Students!
How to Avoid being on the Military Recruiters' list

Protect your Constitutional Right to Privacy:
Opt-out Form for High School Students

Breaking news:

The Marine Corps is still struggling to stop drill instructors from abusing recruits

The U.S. Marine Corps continues to grapple with hazing at its storied recruit training center at Parris Island in South Carolina, where the service punished at least eight drill instructors and a number of officers for abusive behavior last year, the Washington Post  reported  Wednesday, citing multiple internal investigations. Click here for details from Task and Purpose.com

If the Military is so great, why are suicides increasing--among both
active-duty soldiers Veterans?

Veteran Deaths according to Military.com The last DoD Survey was for 2016, when the rate across all the military services was 21.1 deaths per 100,000 active-duty service members.
Active Duty Rates Data

Rates for the individual services that year were:

• 19.4 per 100,000, based on 61 deaths, for the Air Force;
• 26.7 per 100,000, based on 127 deaths, for the Army;
• 15.3 per 100,000 based on 50 deaths, for the Navy;
• 21 per 100,000, based on 37 deaths, for the Marine Corps.

WHY?? Why target 17-18 year olds?

Brain researchers have shown in the last 10 years what Military has known for centuries. The younger the person, the easier to condition them to obey. And there is a biological reason. The brain scientists discovered with their imaging equipment that the frontal lobes are the command center for functions such as self-control, responsibility, planning for the future, and forecasting the results of today's behaviors. Further, these lobes are not fully developed until the age of 28!! In other words, if someone told me someone was bad just because they were born in a country with different ideas and a different religion, I would smile and dismiss the source of the information—but not if I were 18. And the saddest part is that the military conditioning lasts into adulthood, even after the military service—unless some serious personal and/or professional intervention to re-condition the moronic slogans of boot camp and the horroric memories of combat that have to be continually justified.

You think you have a contract with the Government?? Before you sign the DD4 look at the wording, it reads "Enlistment/Re-enlistment Document? It's a Document, a piece of paper, JAMRS Fact Sheet and Opt Out Form with an explanation of recruiting database under the guise of "marketing research" with a form for opting out of the survey and recruitment databases. Form on Page 4.“ Technically, there is no way to keep your personal information out of the JAMRS database. However, if you fill out an opt out form and send it to the JAMRS headquarters, the DOD will keep your name in a 'suppression file.' Your information will be inaccessible to recruiters and remain in a sealed suppression file. In May 2005, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced that it was going to create a massive database for recruiting [to assist the recruiters to reach their monthly quota].The DOD's 'Joint Advertising and Market Research & Studies (JAMRS)' system proposed to combine student information, Social Security Numbers (SSN), and information from state motor vehicle repositories into a mega database housed at a private direct marketing firm. Approximately 25 million individuals' information would be in the database, and there is no way to opt out.

In 2006 the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) sued the DOD, resulting in a few changes to JAMRS policy. “The DOD agreed to 'stop disseminating student information to law enforcement, intelligence or other agencies and instead limit the use of the JAMRS database to military recruiting; limit to three years time the DOD retains student information; stop collecting SSNs; stop collecting information about students younger than 16; establish and clarify procedures by which students can block the military from entering information about them in the database and have their information removed.”What is ths information used for? communications programs help broaden people's understanding of military service as a career option, while our internal government market research and study programs help bolster the effectiveness of all the Services' recruiting and retention efforts.” It drives the Todaysmilitary.com recruiting and advertising efforts.

Thanks to extensive and wonderful work by NNOMY (National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth) Please check out their website for many resources for helping your sons and daughters by working with the school board and city governments, including, but not limited to materials such as the kit below:

NNOMY's complete kit for parents and teachers
Back-to-school kit for counter-recruitment and School Demilitarization Organizing

An Informative anti-recruitment brochure to pass out at your local events and meeting
"Thanks to Veterans for Peace"

Anti-Recruitment Brochure

Opt-out Form for High School Students

The DD4 reads "Enlistment/Re-enlistment Document? It's a Document, not a Contract.
U.S. courts of law and government say,"No! We have no obligation to you—even if your are wounded in battle."

Why Suicide Rates among Veterans may be over 22 a day (2013)
CNN

U.S.Soldier Suicides Outpaced Combat Deaths-in-2012
US News

Letter from Michael Moore:

Those Who Say "I Support the Troops" Should Just Stop, out of Respect for the Troops

Battle of the mind: PTSD and OSI info
Click for Video

How a specialist lost his benefits
April 2007 report from The Nation

Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered in America's War? As many as 105,117

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (officially acknowledged) In
America's War 4399

Cost of America's War in Iraq
$310,510,773,916

Letter from VDPI to National Press Club

URGENT HEALTH WARNING FOR ALL GULF WAR JOURNALISTS

Hundreds of journalists and photographers—  including Pentagon “Embedded Reporters,” 
unknowingly are being exposed to the “most toxic battlefields on earth.” They should be WARNED— and seek unbiased medical testing for toxic uranium...
British troops (unlike continuously deceived American troops) were WARNED by their government about the toxic “depleted uranium” environment to which they were exposed, and related need for unbiased medical testing for toxic uranium...

Governors oppose letting president unilaterally federalize Guard in emergencies
Brett Murphy
JURIST—Legal News and Research

[JURIST] US governors attending the annual meeting of the National Governors Association [official website] that got under way Saturday in Charleston, South Carolina, are opposing a bill [NGA letter] in Congress that would allow the president to take over the National Guard [official website] without the consent of governors during emergencies. The House version [text] of the National Defense Authorization Act includes a measure removing the traditional requirement that the president gain the consent of governors before federalizing the Guard. Gov. Kathleen Blanco [official website] of Louisiana told reporters that "Federalization just for the sake of federalization makes no sense... Just making quick decisions can make things happen." Gov. Mark Sanford [official website] of South Carolina agreed, saying that "the idea of federalizing yet another function of government in America is a, the wrong direction, and b, counterproductive."

Question: Does the Government keep its promises?

Answer: NO--and a Federal Court says they do not have to!

"The Appeals Court ruled against the plaintiffs on a technicality, arguing that promises by recruiters were invalid because only Congress could authorize military health care, which Congress had not done when the plaintiffs entered the service," said Van Hollen.  "But although the retired colonels lost their case on that technicality, I believe they won their moral battle on principle."

The Court ruling said, in part, "We cannot readily imagine more sympathetic plaintiffs than the retired officers of the World War II and Korean War era involved in this case. They served their country for at least 20 years with the understanding that when they retired they and their dependents would receive full free health care for life.  The promise of such health care was made in good faith and relied upon. . . .  Perhaps Congress will consider using its legal power to address the moral claims raised by Schism and Reinlie on their own behalf, and indirectly for other affected retirees."

Sickened Iraq vets cite depleted uranium
    By Deborah Hastings
    The Associated Press
    Saturday 12 August 2006

New York - It takes at least 10 minutes and a large glass of orange juice to wash down all the pills - morphine, methadone, a muscle relaxant, an antidepressant, a stool softener. Viagra for sexual dysfunction. Valium for his nerves.    Four hours later, Herbert Reed will swallow another 15 mg of morphine to cut the pain clenching every part of his body. He will do it twice more before the day is done.    Since he left a bombed-out train depot in Iraq, his gums bleed. There is more blood in his urine, and still more in his stool. Bright light hurts his eyes. A tumor has been removed from his thyroid. Rashes erupt everywhere, itching so badly they seem to live inside his skin. Migraines cleave his skull. His joints ache, grating like door hinges in need of oil.    There is something massively wrong with Herbert Reed, though no one is sure what it is. He believes he knows the cause, but he cannot convince anyone caring for him that the military's new favorite weapon has made him terrifyingly sick.    In the sprawling bureaucracy of the Department of Veterans Affairs, he has many caretakers. An internist, a neurologist, a pain-management specialist, a psychologist, an orthopedic surgeon and a dermatologist. He cannot function without his stupefying arsenal of medications, but they exact a high price.    "I'm just a zombie walking around," he says.

    Reed believes depleted uranium has contaminated him and his life. He now walks point in a vitriolic war over the Pentagon's arsenal of it - thousands of shells and hundreds of tanks coated with the metal that is radioactive, chemically toxic, and nearly twice as dense as lead.

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