Whats it tell you when a former NG recruiter tells his kid not to join up?

[NNN0LHI]

Army, National Guard fail to meet recruitment goals


http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/11 ...

CHICAGO - (KRT) - Cortnee Smith, a lanky high school honors student, last year had her mind set on joining the National Guard. Her parents supported her. Friends in the Army told her what to expect. Smith took a military aptitude test and told school counselors and a recruiter she planned to join after graduation.

But last fall, her father, Michael Smith, himself a former National Guard recruiter, quashed those plans.

"He was like, `No, no, don't go,'" said Cortnee Smith, 17, now a senior in high school. "`Tell (the recruiter) to stop contacting you.'" snip

The active Army was 2,150 recruits short of meeting its March goal of 6,800 new troops, and the Army Reserve fell 739 short of its 1,600 goal. These shortfalls were worse than those in February, when the Army and its reserve components failed to meet recruiting goals for the first time since May 2000.

Army Secretary Francis Harvey said he expects recruiting to fall short in April as well.

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[mhr]

1. Suicidal Aspirations Leave You Dead!

eom

[coloradodem2005]

2. It tells me that they don't want their kids in the war.

[NNN0LHI]

3. It tells me that this former recruiter is telling his own kid to let...

...someone who doesn't know any better go over to Iraq and die for Halliburton and the rest of the corporate criminals who are there to get rich off of someone else's blood. Makes perfect sense to me.

Don

[FreedomAngel82]

4. Yep

He knows the truth. I wonder if he talks to other people who know more one-on-one.

[seabeyond]

5. he expects recruiting to fall short in April as well.

well no shit, just how dumb do they think we are. oh ya, we voted bush in, lol lol

[Ganja Ninja]

6. It tells me this guy isn't a FOX news watcher or ..

if he is he's not buying it.

[Az_lefty]

7. I'm a NG retired 1sg and no way does my daughter join the Army!

Not going to let it happen.