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MONADNOCK
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8/27/2008 1:17 PM
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CANNON FODDER: ARMY HOPES TO FILL RANKS WITH HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS

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(AP) Austin Swarner left high school to care for his mother while she fought a losing battle with cancer. Tony Brown wanted to begin supporting himself and left two classes shy of a diploma. Haelee Holden got tired of trying to make it through school while flipping burgers until 1 a.m.

But the U.S. Army, eager to fill its ranks amid wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, doesn't see them as dropouts. They are recruits who only need a GED before they're ready to begin basic training.

And so, the Army formally opens its first prep school Wednesday.

"It's academic immersion," explained Col. Jeffrey Sanderson, chief of staff at Fort Jackson, home of the Army's largest basic training school. "Our studies show that with only three out of every 10 people of military age being capable of joining the Army, we are going to have to do something different."

That includes turning six World War II-era buildings at the base into a mini-campus of spartan classrooms and barracks. Under the yearlong pilot project, classes of about 60 soldiers will enter the monthlong program every week.

Their day begins in uniform at 5 a.m. with physical training. Then they attend about eight hours of academic review classes, followed by homework each evening. An hour of marching drills and military discipline is thrown in for good measure.

"It's a tough, structured day. Some of them have sat on the couch for 18 years, but I haven't heard any howling yet," said social studies instructor John Solis, one of 14 certified teachers on hand. "By and large, they are chomping at the bit; they are ready to go."

The soldiers work in small classrooms outfitted with simple desks, chairs, and dry-erase boards. In-desk computers are used for test-taking. Grouped three to four to a class, the students hunch over special GED preparation books, working on basic math, social studies and reading selections.

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Anonymous Coward
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8/27/2008 1:19 PM

Re: CANNON FODDER: ARMY HOPES TO FILL RANKS WITH HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS	Quote
If it gets those kids in my inner city off welfare off the streets and aiming their guns at al queda instead of me or each other, I'm all for it.

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8/27/2008 1:22 PM

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8/27/2008 1:25 PM

Re: CANNON FODDER: ARMY HOPES TO FILL RANKS WITH HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS	Quote
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Anonymous Coward
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8/27/2008 1:29 PM

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If it gets those kids in my inner city off welfare off the streets and aiming their guns at al queda instead of me or each other, I'm all for it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 475356 HELL YES!! Couldn't have said it better myself.

Anonymous Coward
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8/27/2008 4:31 PM

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If it gets those kids in my inner city off welfare off the streets and aiming their guns at al queda instead of me or each other, I'm all for it. HELL YES!! Couldn't have said it better myself. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 489198

Anonymous Coward
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8/27/2008 4:36 PM

Re: CANNON FODDER: ARMY HOPES TO FILL RANKS WITH HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS	Quote
If it gets those kids in my inner city off welfare off the streets and aiming their guns at al queda instead of me or each other, I'm all for it. HELL YES!! Couldn't have said it better myself. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 489198 What about the moral implications?

lynleo
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8/27/2008 5:06 PM

Re: CANNON FODDER: ARMY HOPES TO FILL RANKS WITH HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS

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If it gets those kids in my inner city off welfare off the streets and aiming their guns at al queda instead of me or each other, I'm all for it.

HELL YES!!
Couldn't have said it better myself.

What about the moral implications?

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 444738

What moral implications? No more than with any other recruiting methods. It is only in the last few decades that you had to have a piece of paper to join the military anyway; previous wars even had judges give misbehaving kids and dropouts (17+) the choice of army or jail.

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