Army recruiters mislead students to get them to enlist

ABC News and New York affiliate WABC equipped students with hidden video cameras before they visited ten Army recruitment offices in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

But isn’t that illegal? If the recruiters knew they were being videotaped, then they wouldn’t have resorted to their tactics! That’s entrapment!

“Nobody is going over to Iraq anymore?” one student asks a recruiter.

“No, we’re bringing people back,” he replies.

Someone in my church has a husband fighting in Iraq. Earlier this year he was wounded and was supposed to be sent back to Alaska for medical treatment. Instead, the army kept him in Iraq, did a quick job, and sent him back out. That’s definitely “bringing people back.”

“We’re not at war. War ended a long time ago,” another recruiter says.

Ass.

One Colorado student taped a recruiting session posing as a drug-addicted dropout.

“You mean I'm not going to get in trouble?” the student asked.

The recruiters told him no, and helped him cheat to sign up.

The army’s really desperate for recruits these days, isn’t it? That’s ok, just ban freedom of the press, and you’ll be able to get boatloads more recruits without having to lie!

“It’s hard to believe some of things they are telling prospective applicants,” Manning said. “I still believe that this is the exception more than the norm....”

The first stage is always denial.

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