America's child soldiers

[JWIlls23]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ann-jones ... 50935.html

What is your opinion of this article? Would you oppose the formation of such a program if the military wanted to start it at your school? I was in CAP in junior high and AFJROTC in high school and don't see how launching model rockets or learning about aerospace science is training someone how to be a soldier.

[Gremlin]

[The Dharma Bum]

well they are kids engaged in military indoctrination and training, that's a child soldier

[JWIlls23]

[JWIlls23]

Do you think a college education was promoted in my JROTC program because of the military branch the program was associated with? Aren't the USAF the lords of technology? I hear the Navy has some good stuff too.

[JWIlls23]

What do you think of that obscenely expensive toy called the F-22 Raptor?

[Spider]

[Spider]

And the article is hopelessly ignorant and misleading clickbait. Huffpo at its very worst.

Aside from the offensive (to everyone involved, both voluntary ROTC cadets and child soldiers) equating of ROTC to actual child soldier problems in the developing world, this flatly mischaracterizes the entire process.

For Chissakes...this is the most basic rudiments of officer training. Its not like trying to recruit enlistees. This author is stupendously ignorant...actually...I doubt she is. She is simply dishonest and lacks basic journalistic ethics.

As to the "colonel" and his second hand comments. I highly doubt any career officer that sticks around long enough to get the bird, much less be assigned to teach, is going to make that sort of career ending blunder by saying something like that. He'd get bounced out of the military so fast for that horseshit....sigh. Utter nonsense.

The comparison of child soldiers....who get kidnapped, drugged, abused, raped, and murdered so routinely while being asked to do the same to others....with some kids who for whatever reason find a possible future career of military service worthwhile...just sickening.

With all the godawful crap kids can get caught up in during their school years...how could anyone actually fault kids for actively seeking out something healthy that is healthy, character building and can actually take them somewhere?

[Mr. Shaman]