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Military Recruiting in the United States – a book by Pat Elder

Posted on February 20, 2017 by VFP Linus Pauling Chapter

A must read for those concerned with the increasingly heavy presence of military recruiters in our schools and at community events. This should be particularly interesting to parents of school-age youth, who are offered minimal information on how much the … Continue reading →

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Thanks for Your Service, but Don’t Tell the Kids About It (We Need Them to Enlist)

Posted on June 17, 2016 by VFP Linus Pauling Chapter

The deceptive claims made by my recruiter were part of my motivation to visit high schools in lower-income towns and help educate students about the particular ways they might be misled by the recruiters in their schools’ hallways. By Emily … Continue reading →

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Army Makes Case Against Enlisting

Posted on March 19, 2014 by VFP Linus Pauling Chapter

[ed. note:  We had read various reports about this paper from the Army War College, but none included the detail of analysis that David offers here. We were especially interested in this piece because some of us prepared papers for … Continue reading →

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Military Targets Corvallis High Schools

Posted on November 2, 2012 by VFP Linus Pauling Chapter

Too Young to Drink, Old Enough to Serve Published in The Corvallis Advocate, Nov. 1, 2012 issue. War is a touchy subject, especially given the near-palpable tension of the upcoming presidential election. If you’re against war, you’re a hippy at … Continue reading →

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