I think military recruiters should not be allowed on high school campuses, simply because the vast majority of high school students are minors, and
they shouldn't be exposed to such coercion before they are mature enough to make such decisions for themselves. College night (or a similar event) is
one thing, but when military recruiters are there every day (like at my high school), or they take over part of the school itself, there is a conflict
of interest.
To give an example of how far military recruiting has gone down here in Florida, when my little brother was in middle school they had a career day. He
came home from it with a bunch of Navy pamphlets, a hat and a poster. I asked him if he was interested in going into the navy and he said 'No, but
they gave these to everyone'. In
middle school! These kids are 12-15 years old, and they are already targets for recruiters.
In my highschool, quite a few years ago the recruiters would drive this big H2 onto campus (it was just when those models were introduced, and they
were the 'hip thing'). They had spinners on it, and would blast rap music out the back of it all day long while they sat at recruitment tables. Not
only was it annoying as hell, but a completely lame attempt at luring
kids into signing their lives away to the military.
I don't really have a problem with JROTC, because in my experience it was mostly the nerdier types who signed up for it, and most of the people I
knew who were in it never went on to join the military. They would meet up after school and run drill routines (ironically at the same time/place as
the cheerleaders

). Needless to say, we all got a chuckle out of the kids who thought it was cool to carry a plastic rifle around dressed in a
light green scout uniform all day.