A few bad recruiters...hate group members & US military

This is Dave Young's Forum.
Can you really bridge the gap between reality and training? Between traditional karate and real world encounters? Absolutely, we will address in this forum why this transition is necessary and critical for survival, and provide suggestions on how to do this correctly. So come in and feel welcomed, but leave your egos at the door!
Post Reply
User avatar
Dana Sheets
Posts: 2715
Joined: Mon Feb 25, 2002 6:01 am

A few bad recruiters...hate group members & US military

Post by Dana Sheets »

I think the distrubing thing about this article and the one on Reuters is not that there are few hate-oriented folks in the military - but rather that the recruiters are being pushed by quotas to abandon their screening standards.
-Dana



Southern Poverty Law Center:
Racist extremists active in U.S. military
SPLC urges Rumsfeld to adopt zero-tolerance policy
Ten years after a scandal over neo-Nazis in the armed forces, extremists are once again worming their way into a recruit-starved military. The Intelligence Project uncovers how white supremacists are using military training to prepare for their own wars at home.

http://www.splcenter.org/
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?pid=80
[quote]Department of Defense investigator Barfield.

"Last year, for the first time, they didn't make their recruiting goals. They don't want to start making a big deal again about neo-Nazis in the military, because then parents who are already worried about their kids signing up and dying in Iraq are going to be even more reluctant about their kids enlisting if they feel they'll be exposed to gangs and white supremacists."

Barfield, who is based at Fort Lewis, said he has identified and submitted evidence on 320 extremists there in the past year. "Only two have been discharged," he said. Barfield and other Department of Defense investigators said they recently uncovered an online network of 57 neo-Nazis who are active duty Army and Marines personnel spread across five military installations in five states -- Fort Lewis; Fort Bragg, N.C.; Fort Hood, Texas; Fort Stewart, Ga.; and Camp Pendleton, Calif. "They're communicating with each other about weapons, about recruiting, about keeping their identities secret, about organizing within the military," Barfield said. "Several of these individuals have since been deployed to combat missions in Iraq."

...

Department of Defense investigator Barfield confirmed that threat assessment. "Today's white supremacists in the military become tomorrow's domestic terrorists once they're out," he said. "There needs to be a tighter focus on intercepting the next Timothy McVeigh before he becomes the next Timothy McVeigh."

...

Reuters Feed
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N07213171.htm

...

NY Times Friday
Hate Groups Are Infiltrating the Military, Group Asserts
By JOHN KIFNER
Published: July 7, 2006
A decade after the Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist hate groups, recruiting shortfalls caused by the war in Iraq have allowed "large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists" to infiltrate the military, according to a watchdog organization....
Did you show compassion today?
cxt
Posts: 1230
Joined: Wed Sep 10, 2003 5:29 pm

Post by cxt »

Dana

Its very disturbing.

But live in a world where troops are needed to protect us.

And when large segments of a society no longer respect the military or are outright contempous of it, when schools and universities actually try and prevent recrutiers from even speaking to students---exactly what do they expect?

"Bad money drives out good" is not a saying that applies to economics.

When people activly try to undermine the best and brightest from even looking at service as a viable option---then it creates opportunity for the "dregs" to slip in.

Plus, in any given sample your going to find "some" bad actors--the military problem is much smaller than the article suggests.

I suspect that the military was pretty deeply inflitrating said groups.

Heard Barbra Boxer last nigh talking about troops needing drugs to fuction.

I'm sitting here thinking that any number of people I know with nice safe "desk jobs" are taking sleeping pills at night to get to sleep, know a bunch of people taking various versions of Paxal to "de-stress" their day.

And their not even being shot at.

Check the growth numbers of sales of various sleep aid and anti-stress drugs from say 1995-2006.

The number of kids on various "scripts" alone is pretty scary.
Post Reply

Return to “Realist Training”