Go to: 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Upcoming
NNOMYnews is the newsletter of the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth. NNOMYnews reports on the growing intrusions by the Department of Defense into our public schools in a campaign to normalize perpetual wars with our youth and to promote the recruitment efforts of the Pentagon.
NNOMYnews also features reports on the saturation of militaristic themes in our entertainment, sports, and gaming offerings that have an influence on our society and on the impact of the military on our environment and health.
Please consider subscribing to this important bulletin and staying informed by filling out the subscription form to the right.
We look forward to you joining with the many of us who are concerned about the threats of cultural militarization in our schools and communities that is threatening a civilian based democracy.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
View Back issues below of the monthly NNOMY Newsletter and educate yourself about how U.S. cultural militarization impacts our schools, youth, and our society.
Also support The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth by Donating to our work.
Below are at list of NNOMYnews by edition number, date, and topic: (Click on the date to open the newsletter)
Back Issues | Upcoming
2026
NNOMYnews 1078 - First Quarter 2026 | Back to Top
- Amid an ICE crackdown in her area, an Oregon National Guard recruiter offers U.S. citizens a way to save their immigrant parents
Jan. 12, 2026 / Greg Jaffe / New York Times - Greg Jaffe spent eight days in The Dalles, Ore., with a recruiter from the Oregon National Guard.
Read Article - Alarming Increase in Domestic Militarization
January 2026 / Lauren Morales / Committee Opposed to Militarism & the Draft (COMD) - For decades the United States has been a hypermilitarized country.
Read Article - Turning Point USA’s Expansion Into High Schools and the Emerging Military Recruitment Pipeline
January 09, 2026 / NNOMY staff / NNOMYPEACE.NET - Turning Point USA (TPUSA), the conservative youth‑mobilization organization founded by Charlie Kirk, has dramatically expanded its presence in American high schools.
Read Article - Education, Not Enlistment
January 12, 2026 / Natasha Souza / NNOMYPEACE.NET - The military was part of my life long before I was old enough to understand what war meant.
Read Article - A Mother’s Report from Caracas
With the intention of reporting on the current situation in Venezuela, I can thankfully say that I am healthy, at home, with my family, and with stable services so far, although there is a great deal of tension that keeps me on high alert due to the events that unfolded since the early morning of January 3rd.
Read Article - The Pentagon is Creating its Own Recruiting Crisis
January 16, 2026 / Rick Jahnkow / Draft NOtices - In the last two years, most of the military's numerical goals for first-time enlistments were reached by lowering acceptance standards and using special pre-boot camp preparation programs to boost the acceptance rate of applicants who would ordinarily have been rejected under past standards.
Read Article - Trump’s Sick Campaign to Gamify Violence
February 16, 2026 / , / New Republic - Last November, during his address before McDonald’s investors, President Donald Trump—as he is wont to do during public speeches—went on one of his weird tangents.
Read Article - Statement Opposing the “Automatic” Registration of Individuals for a Possible Military Draft
March 12, 2026 / Edward Hasbrouck / Antiwar.com - The organizations listed below oppose the recent change in federal law, buried in the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, that will result in the Selective Service System (SSS) trying to “automatically” identify, locate, and register men ages 18 through 25 for a future draft.
Read Article
2025
NNOMYnews 1077 - Fourth Quarter 2025 | Back to Top
- Opinion: Targeted military recruitment impacts Latine voter decisions
September 11, 2024 / Valeria Martinez / Daily Orange - College students all over the country, including many students at Syracuse University, seem to take the privilege of higher education for granted.
Read Article - This Program Rescued Army Recruiting
Oct. 4, 2025 / Greg Jaffe / Visuals by Kenny Holston / New York Times - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has credited the military’s strong recruiting numbers this year to a nationwide surge in patriotism and a love for President Trump.
Read Article - Beginning/Recruitment - Middle/Killing - End/The long slide into Moral Hell
Dec 17, 2025 / Rubicon & Griobhtha with Juan Idalgo / Crossing Rubicons - Sean was asked to write something for the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth.
Read Article - How the US Became the Evil Empire
Nov 17, 2025 / Tam Hunt / tamhunt.medium.com - On July 8, 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Edo Bay with four heavily armed warships — two steamships and two sailing vessels — their black hulls billowing smoke as they approached the Japanese capital.
Read Article - Peaceful Career Alternatives
In a time in the United States with escalating educational tuition and military budgets, many of our young people are finding themselves faced with few options for earning a degree or finding a career and turn to military offers of college funding and learning job skills.
Read Article - Talk World Radio: Norman Solomon on the Blue Road to Trump Hell
December 15, 2025 / Norman Solomon & David Swanson / Talk World Radio -David Swanson on Talk World Radio is talking with Norman Solomon about his brand new book, The Blue Road to Trump Hell: How Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Autocracy.
Watch the Interview
NNOMYnews 1076 - Third Quarter 2025 | Back to Top
- What DEI Bans in the Military Mean for Our Communities
July-September 2025 / Oren Robinson / Draft NOtices - In line with Trump administration policies, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has taken steps to remove all programs that emphasize diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in military recruitment.
Read Article - High School Students Shouldn’t Be Wearing Military Uniforms
March 08, 2023 / William Astore / LA Progressive - I entered the Air Force through ROTC and served for 20 years, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. I also taught for 15 years at both military and civilian colleges.
Read Article - Public Education Under Threat: 4 Trump Administration Actions To Watch in the 2025-26 School Year
Aug 27, 2025 / Center for American Progress - As students, families, and educators prepare for the new school year, they face a great deal of uncertainty about the role the federal government will play in public education.
Read Article - This Program Rescued Army Recruiting
The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) views the expansion of the U.S. Army’s Future Soldier Preparatory Course—highlighted in The New York Times’ October 4 article —as a troubling escalation in the federal government’s efforts to normalize military enlistment as a default pathway for economically marginalized youth.
Read Article - House Rules Committee blocks vote on ending Selective Service
September 9, 2025 / Edward Hasbrouck / Edward Hasbrouck's blog - Early this morning, after overnight behind-the-scenes discussions, the Rules Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives voted to propose a rule for House floor consideration of this year’s National Defense [sic] Authorization Act (NDAA)
Read Article - For the UN International Day of Peace 2025: NNOMY Contributes Resources to Demilitarize Our Schools
The U.S. funding of Israel’s war in Gaza and last year's sending of 100 U.S. troops to Israel to staff anti-missile sites has given students across the country a reason to question the presence of military programs in their high schools. Many do not want to participate in a service that they believe is tied to a government complicit in “ethnic cleansing” and that has caused the deaths of many innocents, including non-combative women and children.
Download the Kit
NNOMYnews 1075 - Second Quarter 2025 | Back to Top
- The Pentagon Wants Your High Schoolers
4/04/2025 / Scott Harding & Seth Kershner / Jacobin - With a shared sense of alarm, current and former military officials, members of Congress, think tanks, and others warn that these personnel shortages undermine US military readiness and its ability to fight future wars across the globe.
Read Article - DOGE gets access to Selective Service registration database
April 17, 2025 / Edward Hasbrouck / Edward Hasbrouck's Blog - The Selective Service System has confirmed that, as of this week, personnel from the so-called Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have arrived at the SSS and have been given access to the SSS database of men registered for a possible military draft.
Read Article - Students Are Starting World BEYOND War Chapters
June 11, 2025 / David Swanson / World BEYOND War - In the United States, Canada, and hopefully other places soon, college students in some cases, and high school students in others, are starting chapters of World BEYOND War — in some cases as student groups through their school.
Read Article - Problems down the Road for Military Recruiting -- and More
April - June 2025 / Rick Jahnkow / Draft NOtices - Young members of Gen Z, the demographic that is most critical of U.S. political policy, would soon realize that entering the military can mean carrying out the imperialistic goals of Trump in places like Gaza, Panama and Greenland. In light of all of the above, perhaps we can be hopeful that the conditions will soon be ripe for a new youth-led movement that challenges militarism and its links to other critical issues. It may even make the social and political upheaval of the 1960s pale in comparison!
Read Article - A Reporter at Large: The U.S. Military’s Recruiting Crisis
February 3, 2025 / Dexter Filkins / The New Yorker - At Fort Jackson, in South Carolina, the U.S. Army comes face to face with America’s youth. When prospective recruits were asked to drop and do five pushups, many groaned and struggled, unable to complete the task. Some, their faces crimson, could barely hold themselves up.
Read Article - Make your voice heard and say no to war.
June 24, 2025 / Mike Merryman-Lotze / AFSC - As a Quaker organization that has worked for peace and justice for over 100 years, we believe that all people deserve to live in safety and peace. But Israel's attacks on Iran and ongoing genocide in Gaza have threatened global and regional security. And by bombing three nuclear energy sites in Iran, the U.S. brought us to the brink of a new, illegal, and costly war.
Read Article
NNOMYnews 1074 - First Quarter 2025 | Back to Top
- Trump’s War on Education
March 11, 2025 / Chris Hedges / The Chris Hedges Report - The attacks on colleges and universities — Donald Trump’s administration has warned some 60 colleges that they could lose federal money if they fail to make campuses safe for Jewish students and is already pulling $400 million from Columbia University — has nothing to do with fighting antisemitism.
Read Article - What you need to know about the Pentagon budget
February 12, 2025 / Michael Merryman-Lotze / AFSC - The Pentagon has failed its annual audit for the 7th time in a row. In fact, it cannot account for half of its inventory, and yet the U.S. government – both Democrats and Republicans – continue to give it blank checks.
Read Article - Letter: Ban JROTC
February 22, 2025 / Greg Alderete / The Suburban Times - In our schools, where young minds are meant to learn the art of questioning authority and embracing the complexity of human experience, the presence of Junior ROTC is a stark contradiction to these ideals.
Read Article - The Critical Importance of School System Involvement
January-March 2025 / Isidro Ortiz, PhD / Draft NOticesDraft NOtices - Written by acclaimed investigative journalist Mike Hixenbaugh, this book is worth an earnest read because of its focus, timeliness and documentation. It will be of interest to a diverse audience, especially those concerned with public schools and their roles and impact on youth development in society, and how elements of the Right have managed to achieve political power.
Read Article - The Army Is Losing Nearly One-Quarter of Soldiers in the First 2 Years of Enlistment
March 07, 2025 / Steve Beynon / Military.com - The Army is grappling with a staggering attrition rate among newly enlisted troops, even as recent recruiting figures suggest the service is clawing its way out of a yearslong enlistment crisis.
Read Article - Project 2025 – Department of Defense Notes – February/March 2025
March 12, 2025 / Libby Frank / NNOMY Report - The report opens with a comment on the nature of war which they warn has become too dependent on technology. From the report: “the most powerful weapon systems will remain the six inches between the ears of our citizens and the strength of their hearts and content of their souls.”
Read Article
2024
NNOMYnews 1073 - Fourth Quarter 2024 | Back to Top
-
How will Project 2025 influence the remilitarization of American Youth?
12/21/2024 / NNOMY - Project 2025 is a comprehensive policy agenda proposed by a coalition of conservative organizations.
Read Article -
The US Military and the Myth That Humanity Is Predisposed to Violence
September 13, 2015 / Maria Santelli / Truthout - We have this tragic misperception that humanity is predisposed to violence.
Read Article -
Pacifist Organizations that Promoted Counter-recruitment
10/08/2024 / NNOMY.ORG - Internationally, pacifist groups have fostered activism through education or direct action against war and advocated for peace.
Read Article -
The Pentagon Goes to School
September 30, 2024 / William Hartung / Tom Dispatch - The divestment campaigns launched last spring by students protesting Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza brought the issue of the militarization of American higher education back into the spotlight.
Read Article -
Counter-recruiting the Military Industrial Complex at UCSB
Marcy Winograd of Codepink interviews protesting UCSB students, Kate Connell of Truth in Recruitment , and Michael Cervantes of Ventura Veterans for Peace regarding protest on Thursday October 17, 2024 at a Military Industry Job Fair on campus. The following text is a transcription from the radio interview conducted by Marcy Winograd.
Read Article -
"Connie Stay Home"
"Connie Stay Home" Filmed by the Peoples Union Filmmakers, 1971. A powerful documentary of the anti-Vietnam War campaign in San Diego that got national attention and mobilized thousands of people to vote against sending the USS Constellation aircraft carrier back to continue bombing Vietnam.
Watch the Film
NNOMYnews 1072 - Third Quarter 2024 | Back to Top
- Consent form revives debate over San Diego Unified School District's JROTC program
August 12, 2024 / Katie Hyson - Matthew Bowler / KPBS - The San Diego Unified School District has made changes to its Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps since Chicano students began campaigning for reform in 2008.
Read article - Utah students protest campus military recruitment, stand with Palestine, Lebanon
September 24, 2024 / Utah Students for a Democratic Society / Fight Back News - Salt Lake City, UT – Nearly a dozen student activists gathered outside the University of Utah’s career fair on September 24 to protest military recruiters present on campus.
Read USDS Statement - The US military is embedded in the gaming world. Its target: teen recruits
February 14, 2024 / Rosa Schwartzburg / Guardian - Amid a recruitment struggle, branches are using huge hits like Fortnite as marketing tools. Some veterans see the practice as unethical – especially given the age of the gaming audience. n a small room tucked into a US navy facility outside Memphis, Tennessee, uniformed personnel sit hunched over monitors, their eyes focused on screens as they speak into headsets with clipped efficiency
Read more - Chelsea Uniting Against the War Against Recruitment Efforts at Chelsea High School
September 12, 2024 / Fran Roznowski / Chelsea Uniting Against the War (CUAW) - Chelsea Uniéndose en Contra de la Guerra’s annual anti-military recruitment campaign was launched at Chelsea High School this week. Members and supporters of CUAW distributed over 1300 English/Spanish fliers as students arrived to school on Monday, September 9, 2024.
Read about this action - A Look Back at Counter-recruitment: Growing Movement to Ban the Military from School
March 2005 • Vol 5, No. 3 / Carole Seligman / SocialistViewpoint - As the devastation of Iraq continues, the antiwar movement is sinking roots in localities all around the United States from demonstrations and vigils, teach-ins, ballot measures, and town meetings (such as the recent series of town meetings all over the state of Vermont that voted to end Vermont National Guard Troops from being sent to Iraq.) Now, added to this broad antiwar movement, there is a mushrooming campaign to deny the U.S. military—all branches—the ability to recruit on high school and college campuses through direct recruitment programs and the paralilitary organization, Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC).
Read article - Do you want to help youth in Whatcom County to learn about service and training opportunities that don't rely on war?
Join our volunteers team by signing up to this upcoming training October 6th 1-3pm at our office on 1220 Bay St! Link in bio to RSVP.
Please join us for our Quarterly AMS Volunteer trainings! Our upcoming training will be held in October at the WPJC Office. This is a great opportunity to engage local youth and veterans in a conversations about our future, our rights and non-violence.
Sign up - Connecting Young Adults to Experienced Career Professionals
Peaceful Options for Training & Careers (POTC) is a U.S.-based networking project that will match you with an advisor who can help you find viable alternatives to military service. These advisors have a passion for helping you figure out your next career step, whether a job, internship, apprenticeship, college or service organization. Please reach out to us if you are interested in being connected with an advisor, no matter where in the U.S. you are.
Find out more
NNOMYnews 1071 - Second Quarter 2024 | Back to Top
Admin - June 27th 2024 marked the 20th anniversary of the formation of the National Network Opposing the militarization of Youth which established itself from a coalition of national and regional organizations meeting in 2004 after the national counter-recruitment conference “Stopping War Where it Begins” in Philadelphia. Much good activism has transpired in the intervening years arguably peaking between the years of 2005 and 2011. With the cycle of wars over the last twenty years, NNOMY has seen counter-recruitment efforts shift increasingly to online information activism with "in-school outreach" diminishing from a peak in 2008 of 140+ groups identified active to a current listing on the National Directory of Youth Demilitarization Groups of around 40+. What contributed to this decline is a combination of factors including antiwar activists facing a public normalized to permanent wars and themselves tiring to affect change to a government under the ownership of the military industry lobbies and a political system beholding to that fact.
With the prolonged war in Ukraine, and the U.S. funded genocide in Gaza in the Middle East, the country has witnessed a resurgence of antiwar activism and protests on school and university campuses nationwide. With the outrage associated to these atrocities there has been the insipient stirrings of a new cohort of youth and community support for all things anti-military including a barely visible interest in intervention into the military recruitment complex primarily at the University level with some stirrings within high school aged youth as well.
At the same time military recruitment has plummeted for the Pentagon as young people choose civilian based futures for themselves and lack the basic qualifications to meet military recruitment standards and what some conservative politicians attribute to "wokeism". The U.S. military is desperate to turn this around to meet its minimum troop levels with increasing military recruitment.
At this juncture, in the summer of 2024, the military and their allies in the government, are now trying to expand military based courses legislatively with programs aimed at poorer communities of color such as mandatory student placements into JROTC classes without parental or student consent and Project 2025 ASVAB testing in our public schools while exempting wealthier private schools. How this all works out past the 2024 elections and contributes to changes in the 2025 NDAA policy directives remains to be seen but one thing is certain; that increased demands put on our schools to allow increased military access to indoctrinate our youth is likely to renew interest in counter-military activism inside our public schools in the months and years ahead.
For NNOMY, the challenges are manifold. To make connections with changing times and cultural changes with a new generation of youth, NNOMY will need to connect to their issues directly on environmental concerns, community policing, and rising antiimperialist sentiments that are becoming more prevalent after the witnessing of a genocide in Gaza, all which will become more imperative in order to gain attention to the counter-recruitment narrative. The failure to do so will likely make the CR activist issues less relevant to these youth and may not permit the passing on of this activism to the next generation adequately to keep counter-recruitment alive for the future. NNOMY needs to change with the times and be able to relate to those it is reaching out to more than ever. The time for this change is now at the 20 year mark for NNOMY.
- The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth Turns 20
- Looking back at Twenty Years of NNOMY
- Equal Access Struggle: Counter-Military Recruitment on High School Campuses
- A Turning Point for the Anti-War Movement?
- Pro/con: Should military recruiters be allowed to promote enlistment in high schools?
- The Time for a Ceasefire is Now!
NNOMYnews 1070 - First Quarter 2024 | Back to Top
Thursday, 18 April 2024 / Admin - For the first quarter of 2024. a new look for the NNOMY newsletter, more down to basics in a era of escalating war business . At hand, are changes for NNOMY like for the rest of the world in a time of mounting securitization, collapsing governmental adherance to civil rights and more corporate militarization influencing the spending priorities of our legislators. This environment is impacting our schools with more Pentagon funding at all levels of schooling to push back against falling recruitment numbers with increasing efforts to sell the military to our youth.
- UConn Scholar Chronicles History and Debate over Military Recruitment in American Schools
- California Selective Service Bill Set for Hearing in Sacramento April 9th
- An Experiment with Involuntary JROTC Placement and Microsoft Copilot Ai
- Demilitarizing Civilian Life: Counter Recruitment at East Boston High School
- Latinos Lured to the Military
- Sonia Santiago dedicates her life to educating for peace
- Restrictions on JROTC Introduced in 2024 Defense Authorization Act
- DoD STARBASE: Early Grooming for Military Recruitment
2023
NNOMY News 1069: Fourth Quarter 2023 - Counter-recruitment after October 7 | Back to Top
For counter-recruitment, looking worn from years of groups aging out and COVID eliminating access to students, the year finished out with a devastating war in Israel revealing military service in the worse of lights and associable to American Militarism by recruitment aged youth that view the support of the United States contributing to the devastation of the Palestinian people in Gaza on their social media.
GenZ is not qualifying for or buying the pitch of military recruitment like previous generations did and where GenAlpha factors in is the next question for the future of counter-recruitment activists. Alpha's are claimed to,
One thing that seems more clear for young enlistment aged youth inside the United States has been US foreign Policy propaganda, and how contradicted it is and remains apart from the truth on the ground from the war justifying rhetoric of the US State Department.
Joe Biden has cinched those doubts with a two faced policy of funding a 21st century ethnic cleansing of Palestine for its security partner Israel and at the same time dissimulating for the American People that Israel has gone to far.
As can be expected, Israeli resistance is growing in the ranks of its military as witnessing of atrocities finds public voice and world visibility and the left/right divide grows in the country while the settler population is allowed unrestrained violence and occupation on Palestinian lands at the same time.
Compounding this moment is the war producing nature of nationalism, revealing the cost exerted upon dwindling public resources for health, education, and housing. Billions go to support a war largely benefitting American immigration into illegal housing settlements on Palestinian lands while American citizens at home struggle with rapidly escalating homelessness.
Can we say that militarism is the necessity method to maintain the nation-state, especially that type which is now openly identified as settler colonialist? Post October 7th may well be a turning point for the world in how we understand state violence and see our youth retreating from participating in it. This should also open an opportunity for the counter-recruitment community to examine their methodologies of speaking to youth during and after a cataclysmic event ushering in a paradigm shift in public sensibilities towards war making.
In the fourth quarter NNOMY News presents articles that signify the changes now influencing values being challenged going forward and hopefully initiates a deconstructing against historically held perceptions about securitization and militarization confronting the reality of state violence for the US recruitment aged youth and guiding them to choose different courses for their lives than contributing to the damage to lives and a sustainable planet of misplaced nationalisms. #seculartalk | @resistersinfo | @veteransforpeace | @wearenotyoursoldiers | @comdsd | @nnomypeace | @afsc
- Why Recruitment in the Military is Down | Nikki Haley Humiliates Herself Again | The Kyle Kulinski Show
- Would a draft make war less likely? No.
- Veterans for Peace with Dr. Kelly Denton-Borhaug on Moral Injury and US War Culture
- Scheduling Fall Class Visits by Anti-War Veterans
- Drop in Public Trust in Military Officers Portends Danger
- Marine Corps eyes national rebranding of recruiting centers
- Military Running Remedial Programs to Snare Unqualified Applicants
- Why Is Gen Z Rejecting the U.S. Military?
- Military Recruiters Have No Place in Our Schools
- BACK to school one way or another
NNOMY News 1068: Third Quarter 2023 - Stopping War Where it Begins: In Schools | Back to Top
Many cultures teach the nation-state as defined by the loyalty of its citizenry to protect it against real or imagined enemies. Much of this ideology is imparted to children in schools through state-supportive naratives built often around magical ideas that the sanctity of the state is divinely sanctioned by our gods, whether those supreme entities be Christian, Muslim, Hindu, or Buddhist. The lessons imparted in our educational systems within the liberal economic conception of the "democratic" states of the "west", are that the natural freedoms of the priviledged permit them the right to impose service upon average citizens to defend the political or commericial interests of their wealth when powerful interests are threatened by competing states. These appeals are couched in nationalistic rhetoric to defend the nation.
Unfortunately, much what remains hidden in these lessons for children and youth, who are soon to be adult members of their respective nations, is that much of what binds the suprastate nationalism together are private financial interests whether they be mated to extractive industries or in industries that support the defense of the nation itself. The irony of much of these industries are that they are not bound to any single national country themselves and are often multinational in scope as are their investors who benefit from this wealth creation.Who pay the price in sacrifice are the relatively powerless citizenry.
The Third Quarter NNOMY news visits again the subject of the military indoctrination built into our educational system, from kinder to college, that reinforces both the mythological and practical narratives that serve the wealth of the nation. In this moment of escalating wars in Ukraine against Russia and with Palestine struggling with their own national autonomy within Israel, we broach the subject of how many ways we teach our children to accept the inevitability of war and the necesity of spending the commons to finance the costs of engaging in them, even at the risk of our own collective demise.
- Federal Legislation Seeks to Restrict High School Junior ROTC
- Christian González Martell: Be well. Be Careful
- Congress, do not buy more death with my tax dollars
- After 12 Years of Being Taught to Hate, I’m Going to Prison Today to Say ‘No’
- Children of War: The War on Terror and the Battle for Young Minds
- I’m a Peace Teacher. Here’s How Brain Science Helps My Kids Handle Conflict
- WRI executive statement on the escalation of violence in Israel-Palestine, October 2023
- Teacher Education Programs Are Places to Challenge Militarism in Schools
- ENDCOM.ORG: Elective Military Corps Programs in Schools Should Not Be Forced Upon Minority and Low-income Students
- Act to De-Escalate the Violence in Israel and Palestine
NNOMY News 1067: Second Quarter 2023 - Why is the military struggling to recruit? | Back to Top
" The percentage of Americans of service age who are eligible to serve in the armed forces is the lowest it’s ever been. It dropped from 29 percent in recent years to 23 percent last year. Fewer young Americans meet the military basic fitness standards, and more young Americans have used controlled substances. While marijuana is legal in twenty-one states plus the District of Columbia, its use is still disqualifying when it comes to joining the military. The decline in the percentage of Americans eligible to serve in the military has become accompanied by a declining interest in service. Just 9 percent of Americans of service age say they want to serve, down from 23 percent a few years ago. A mix of factors looks to be a work. A robust job market reduces the economic incentive to join the military. The political right has raised concerns of “wokeism,” while the political left has raised concerns about far-right extremism among service members. And the military’s well-documented problems in curbing sexual harassment and assault, epitomized by the murder of Army solider Vanessa Guillén, has likely discouraged many young women from wanting to join the military" - CFR
- Lavender's Purple Heart - Veteran Seaman Gunderson
- Chicano Park Day 2023: Youth Demilitarization Space in the USA
- Senators Warren, Sanders, Hirono Introduce Junior Reserve Officer Training Safety Act Gen Z Targeted with Military Recruitment Propaganda
- Gen Z Targeted with Military Recruitment Propagand
- Protesters Decry Military Recruitment at Bronx School Fair Co-Hosted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Bronx antiwar activists respond to AOC's smears
- Senate legislation seeks to boost US military recruitment amid shortfall
- U.S. Army Recruitment Propaganda: EMMA | THE CALLING | GOARMY
