Recruit, recruit, recruit

Saturday, 10:20 am

Oct

22

2005

This morning I learned that the United States Air Force Band of Liberty ensemble, Afterburner, out of Hanscom AFB, visited the high school yesterday for an assembly program. Apparently they were pretty good and tried to appeal to the younger set, fairly successfully.

However, during the program, Air Force personnel circulated through the student body passing out recruiting material, along with pens and hats and lanyards and coffee mugs. Their recruiting table was set up by the door.

Now that irritates the living crap out of me. It’s not enough that the school is obligated to hand over the names, addresses, and phone numbers of the senior class to military recruiters and recruiters are parked in the lunch room on a near daily basis, but now this? A cultural music event with a little injection of red, white, and blue is okay, but dammit, quit with the intensive recruiting stuff. This drives me nuts. I don’t send my kid to school so the military can relentlessly recruit a captive audience on school time. I strenuously protest!!