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Pentagon Creating A Database Of Students

Posted by Zonk on from the hi-there-timmy dept.

needacoolnickname writes "The Washington Post is reporting that the Pentagon is working with a marketing firm to create a database of students ages 16 through college to help them identify recruits. A little chuckle from the Pentagon in the article: '...anyone can opt out of the system by providing detailed personal information that will be kept in a separate suppression file. That file will be matched with the full database regularly to ensure that those who do not wish to be contacted are not, according to the Pentagon.'"

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  1. Marketing? During the election they said... by Kohath · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The armed forces are marketing now? How can that be?

    John Kerry and the Democrats told me I was going to be drafted right after the election. I keep checking my mail. It's been 6 months now and no draft notice.

    It must have been lost in the mail. Have any of you recieved your draft notices yet? When do you ship out?

  2. Re:You are expendable pawns. by zoloto · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mods on crack.

    I hate to break it to the moderators, but this marking this flamebait is abuse of the mod system.

    I'd also like to point out that this is a REAL TATIC used on people. For military or other purposes, it is QUITE REAL since stereotypically poor equates ignorance and not a whole lot of self governing thought of intelligence.

    Wow, I'm surprised at this moderation. I thought the slashdot crowd was slightly more intelligent than that. No matter how unpopular.

    My mistake.

  3. Troll by ArielMT · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Take a friggin' hike, troll. I disagree with many of TMM's posts, but he presents arguments that make me at least think. What have you contributed to improve slashdot, troll? Name one thing. Just one.

    I thought so.

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  4. Re:Draft needed for upcoming Iran invasion. by ravenspear · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Scott Ritter is a raving lunatic and his unwavering hatred for Bush causes him to say a lot of irrational things.

  5. LOL, you're incorrect. by CyricZ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A lot of "irrational things", huh? Like him saying before the Iraq war that there were none of the weapons that Bush and Blair knowingly mislead the public about? He was correct, you know. I'm sure it'll hurt your Republican pride to admit that your president lied to you about that, and that Scott Ritter was 100% correct in what he said. And he'll most likely be correct about the invasion of Iran. Double the ouch to your Republican pride! LOL!

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