Gangs in the military: A growing problem, page

Gangs in the U.S. military are happening more and more. Members of white, black and Latino street gangs are signing up to serve in the armed forces, and Thelma Gutierrez reports it's so serious that the FBI calls it a national security threat.

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I recently saw an episode of the show Gangland on this very topic. Recruiters are under pressure to provide more soldiers. They are lowering their standards for induction. More and more gang members, with questionable morals, and criminal records, are being inducted. These men are trained in the military skills, most of which are very useful when they return to their gangbanger life. The one returning veteran gang member can then train his fellow gangbangers and form a crack troop of street thugs. This will lead eventually to a situation where the gangs are better trained than law enforcement.

"This is where (recruiters) are allowed to break the rules of recruitment, and this happens mainly in the Army and the Marines," Valdemar commented.

Between 2003 and 2006, the Armed Forces permitted 4,230 convicted criminals into the Army, according to an investigation by the Michael D. Palm Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Also admitted during that time were 58,561 people with drug use.

"As to recruiter impropriety, our practice is not to condone it," said Lt. Col. George Wright with the Army Public Affairs office in Washington, D.C. He went on to say that the number of known gang members is not a demographic group for which the Army keeps statistics.

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I believe this will come back on society just as Prohibition did. Prohibition empowers gangs by providing a ready source of easy income. This is empowering them by training them in weapons and explosives, to kill, infiltrate and evade. People think gangs are bad now. Wait until the gangbangers in Iraq get home and continue their criminal careers. The worst is yet to come.

Part 1 of 5 of the show Gangland:

reply to post by TheComte

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there was a report about this a few years ago

in a nutshell the gangs are using the military to get free training in a wide range of skills in order to employ those skills once released from the military

pretty creative

reply to post by Revealation

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I love your theory. Lets make us a single US cultural identity!

Now shall it have a background from:
English, Irish, German, French, Swiss, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Slavic, Russian, Finnish, Swedish, Arab, Persian, Chinese, Mongolian, African, South American....etc....etc...


Do you get the picture of how retarded it sounds to have a single identity when EVERYONE in our country can trace lineage to somewhere else on the globe??

I believe your frustration is better directed to the "Ghetofication" of our country and not where we came from.

reply to post by bismarcksea

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I think his point is that wherever your "roots" go you should be American first and foremost. Not some pasty white been here 6 generations suddenly discovered your great-great cousins roommate was friends with Puerto-Rican so now you go around wearing a hairnet, baggy jeans and have adopted some urban/illiterate slang variation.

Being fond of and embracing ones cultural heritage is one thing, using your cultural heritage as an excuse to behave like a jackass and use it to build a wall around you is another. If we're going to "embrace" to the point of division we may as well all secede into our own little mini-countries.

It's all evident in this hyphenated American crap. You're not African-America, you're not Mexican-American, you're not German-American, you're damn American plain and simple.

When the hell did peoples lives become so empty and boring they had to start living off of labels to make things "interesting" for themselves?





[edit on 12-6-2009 by thisguyrighthere]

reply to post by thisguyrighthere

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Hail to the voice of wisdom, yes you are right at least on my own personal experience as a Caribbean Puertorican women I am not a Latino American women I am an American plain and simple.

It hurts me the stereotypes that has been born in this nation out of stupidity and lack of proper education.

You are born in the US you are a darn American no matter where your grandmother came from.

Get it?

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