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To: Bill/WA who wrote (42955)	12/19/2005 8:19:57 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

however, without the draft, it may take awhile. Never underestimate the recruting ability of uncle sam dear citizen: Join the US army - because Iraq's far safer than Miami guardian.co.uk For Deliford the army is a way out of a tough part of town. Though just 23, he and his wife have three children to care for. Jobs are scarce and funding a college degree almost impossible - until the army stepped in. In return for signing up, Deliford will get free tuition and a $10,000 bonus. A major part of the recruiter's spiel in Miami is about the problems associated with any major US city. Crime is high in the inner city and downtown is full of empty lots, with streets prowled by the homeless. Sergeant Everett Best is brazen about crime levels when potential recruits worry about going to Iraq. 'I tell them straight up. Miami is the biggest war zone we've got,' he said. 'Every time you turn on the TV we see someone shot.' Bass uses simple figures. Nine people from southern Florida have died in Iraq, compared with 338 murders in the Florida region last year: 'They have a better chance in the army than on the streets of Miami.' armytimes.com Army recruiters now have a wider pool to find future soldiers in. The Army is reaching out to a slice of America’s youth long ineligible to serve: non-high school graduates who don’t have a General Equivalency Diploma The numbers of so-called "Category 4" recruits will double to 4%, according to reports, a response to the shortfall of 7,000 new volunteers this year. Category 4 enlistees are those who test between the 16th and 30th percentile in the Army's competence exams. The Army had long kept its enlistment of such mental defectives to only 2%, in line with the military image of "An Army of One," made up of technologically proficient warriors capable of wielding the expensive high-end weapons systems which cost US taxpayers dearly. Too dumb to pass highschool - but smart enough to run a 30 million dollar tank and missles and nukular bombs - pathetic. All in the interests of Empire.