Money spent on early-childhood education today can help protect America's national security tomorrow, former military leaders said yesterday at a news conference in Richmond.
About 70 percent of the nation's military-age young people cannot enlist in the armed forces because of inadequate education, criminal records or physical problems.
"We estimate that only about three out of 10 American youth between the ages of 17 and 24 are fully qualified for military service," said Douglas Smith, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Recruiting Command at Fort Knox, Ky.
It's sad commentary that between inadequate education, criminal records and being physically unfit that 70% of Americans 17-24 can not enlist because they don't meet minimum
basic requirements. Shocking, right? The Military has created Mission: Readiness, a program aimed at helping young people get healthy and fit for life and the military.
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I really dont think that young people enlisting really need a good education, espescially if they are wanting to fight in a war. If you look back atevery war this country has been in the majority of people fighting were seventeen-year old men taken from highschool in a draft or they went and enlisted. I can gladly say that if I were to enlist right now I could be placed in any situation and I would find a way to make it out, and I'm just a poor dirt-road boy who isnt smart at all.
