Ruling May Hinder Military Recruiting

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By JUSTIN POPE, AP Education Writer
BOSTON - Maj. Rachel VanLandingham's job sounds like one of the toughest in the military — persuading law school graduates to pass on high-paying private sector jobs and become Air Force judge advocates for about $40,000 a year.

But VanLandingham, chief of recruiting for the Air Force Judge Advocate General Corps, says she often succeeds in luring the bright young lawyers that the military urgently needs. Often, she sells the career by talking face-to-face with students about the opportunities being a JAG afforded her to travel and make courtroom arguments just two months after passing the bar exam.


"I wish I drove a BMW and I don't, but that's something money can't replace," she said of the experience. "And I can't convey that to a law student without sitting down with them in an interview."

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"These are people who could start at six figures easy (at a private law firm," she said. "The only way I can answer their questions is to go to the law schools."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041204/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/military_recruiters_colleges_1

[jimshoes]

1. Special skills

Number 1 top priority. Look out all your graduating law students, Uncle Sam wants YOU! Oh, and and doctors too.

[baldguy]

2. It takes a well-educated mind with special cognitive skills

to be able to justfy the torture of civilians to a court of law.

[gaia_gardener]

3. Oh poor them

It's so easy to fix this - all they have to do is start accepting gays. The law schools only prevent them from recruiting because they have rules against discriminatory agencies. If the military stopped being discriminatory, everything would be copacetic.

[Nashyra]

4. I had the pleasure of volunteering with an Army JAG

He was very active in the Kerry campaign and had just recently come bacl from Abu Gharib. Very telling, very anti * but had to be very careful.

[DaveinMD]

5. EJ Dionne's OP ED

in the Washington Post yesterday is must reading for all progressives.