Pentagon Creating A Database Of Students

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.'"

Comments

Re:You are expendable pawns.

[shrubya]

What nonsense. Rich kids *used* to join during the Vietnam era, mostly in nice safe officer slots when the alternative was risk being drafted.

How many "rising star" US politicians under age 50 have military backgrounds? None come to mind immediately. Out of the likely 2008 contenders, only McCain served.

Re:One step beyond..

[Mac Degger]

Am I the only one who is chilled by these kinds of stories? At what point will the average american say 'this is the thing which has made it clear to me: they have gone too far!'?

Seriously: your president has lied to you (often, and on a larger, more important scale than lying about a blowjob), the administration is demonstrably corrupt (Enron and Halliburton) and it's hypocritical (allows pornstars at their functions). Your governments policies have created poverty, debt and terrorists as if it where actively pursuing that purpose; it has screwed up education to the point that illiteracy and innumeracy are reaching third world levels; and now it has created a recruitment agency which literaly leaves no stone unturned. There is now literally no way of getting away from the recruiters...