Bombed Recruiting Office Back to Work

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Bombed Recruiting Office Back to Work
Knight Ridder | March 10, 2008

As city authorities investigated the explosion yesterday at the iconic Times Square military recruiting station, efforts to persuade Long Islanders to join the military continued largely uninterrupted.

At the Armed Forces Career Center in Greenlawn, located in a Broadway strip mall that includes a pizzeria and a 7-Eleven, the recruitment center was closed yesterday morning. But several recruiters said in phone interviews that it was not shut due to the Times Square blast, but rather because they do not hold set hours.

"It's business as usual," Petty Officer Scott Whitaker said.

The Pentagon sent instructions to the military's recruiting stations nationwide to be vigilant, a Pentagon official said.

"This appears to be an isolated incident," said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman, adding that "there is no impact on our recruiting mission in New York City."


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