Volunteer for the Army, get $40K & job interview – if you survive.

[jody]

General Cites Influencers as Part of Recruiting Challenge
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Programs also are in place to give soldiers tours of military installations to give them a feel for Army life, and another program partners with business to guarantee new recruits priority interviews right when they complete training or military service.

He said about 100 companies have signed on with the Army in the "Partnership for Youth Success," including the Dell Corp., Southwest Airlines and Sears Logistics.
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[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Join up! Kill people for fun and money! Your name on a monument!

Have bosses even dumber than you are! Free body bags! Come home in a flag draped casket! Make new friends in luxurious hospitals while awaiting prosthesis or have plastic surgery on your missing face!

When I was young and stupid and joined up in '61, they paid us $78 a month to do the same things.

[unhappycamper]

2. I can think of a number of reasons to decline.

The American death toll in Iraq currently stands at 1,724.
http://icasualties.org/oif/

It took a Freedom Of Information Act to pry these pictures out of our government:
http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/coffin_photos/dover/gallery.htm
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB152/index.htm

Over 6,400 soldiers have been wounded and not returned to duty.

The following link shows a few of our 12,000 wounded and maimed soldiers. CAUTION- contains some VERY graphic pictures:
http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/wounded/gallery.htm

These are the realities of military life.