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The LeoBurnettTruck Is Coming! The LeoBurnettTruck Is Coming!

While we were unaware, Marquette's ROTC asked 6 months ago for the ArmyOfOne truck to come for a day of high level recruitment, propaganda and mind control. The highest brass you could imagine was there, along with so seriously high tech equipment. The big guns.
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There were leftenant colonels (0-6?), command sergent majors (E-9),
sergents first class, everybody but generals really. ROTC people
volunteering and even a ROTC who is prior service. (pictured here)
woo hoo. Hmmm. He managed to get an early start on going one class
step up above the green to gold program. most of them go from about
E-5 to 0-2 and work their way up very fast. He wasn't quite as elite
as say someone doing Yale ROTC or West Point because he's going to
Marquette.

You know, the one that has a law school famous now for being the
9th whitest in the entire nation!

At any rate, the heavy guns were out for the day trying to boost
up some of the ROTC recruitment and even perhaps youngest kids
willing to drop out and join delayed entry program right away
and interrupt studies for a promise of GI Bill which in fact
becomes little more than a nice reimbursement program if you're
upper middle class, and essentially it's no longer a benefit,
but a 10-1 matching fund program after Congressman Montgomery
had gotten through with it. Yes, you pay 1200 dollars out of
your own paychecks at the beginning of your army career and
if you stay in long enough you'll get 300 or 400 a month for
the semesters you're in school getting c's or better. And yes,
I can say first hand as prior service myself, they are ALWAYS
late to pay, and it will never pay your entire college no matter
how hard you try.

But how do these recruiters word it?

"We'll even pay for college."

They're not lying. Hell, if they bought you three books and
stopped right there, they'd be paying for college right? Heck,
they could buy you a Hundred Grand candybar when you're feeling
snacky and save you a trip to Subway, and they're probably paying
for college right?

Yup, they won't lie. (if you narrow the definition of the word
lie enough.) But they're heavy on the "accentuate the positive
eliminate the negative," to be sure, and majorly propagandistic,
and now thanks to Leo Burnett corporation in Chicago, Illinois I
must say they're very heavy on the mind control and cult-like
behavior.

Keep an eye out. Ask them some hard questions no matter how old
or young you are. And know that they are under a great deal of
pressure to recruit 17-22 year olds above and beyond everyone
else, and it's a downward sloping straight line from 17-22!
That's right, the 22 year old responds a LOT worse than the
17 year old. It's a straight line down from about 18% to 1.5%!!!

Recruiting of Black and Latino americans is way down, as
is recruitment of women from every ethnic group. Some dangerous
trends to think about.

Follow links, research deeper, add some perspective too, please.
Let's inform each other. Let's find out where this 18-wheel rig
is going next. UWM? Alverno? Chicago Art Institute???

worcester.indymedia.org/news/2004/09/291.php
santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/17280/index.php
sfbay.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/1733416.php

www.antiwar.com/orig/whitehurst.php
peacefile.org/phpnuke/modules.php
www.truthout.org/docs_2005/040505Y.shtml
smirkingchimp.com/viewtopic.php
www.pulitzer.org/year/2000/national-reporting/works/no_sir.html
rncwatch.typepad.com/counterrecruiter/2005/week11
 
 

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