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Update:
Wednesday, November 8, 2006 6:39 PM
Below
is a collection of infomation & stories about the war machine
- military action & service, selective service enlistment, draft
legislation, resistance, etc. -- click underlines for access.
(Special thanks
to Joe, Carl, Scott & Josh and many other other hard workinginformation
mavins. Send contributions to resist@rcnv.org)
Headliners:
Zinn
- Iraq
the "Ultimate Betrayal"
Basic War & Peace Economics
Lesson True
Majority
Marine
Staff Sgt. Massey,
Iraq
"brutality" against "innocents
Iraq
War items: click
here
RCNV
Mid-East Israel/Palestine Report: click
here
CENTURY
OF U.S. MILITARY INTERVENSION - A LIST
1890-2002
MILITARY
ENLISTMENT CONTRACT, read
carefully, especially p. 2
ENLISTED MILITARY
CAN GET HONORABLE C.O. DISCHARGE the
process
RECRUITMENT: ~
Out to Get YOU! - Amry
Recruiter Training Manual
~
Aggressive
Recruitment Results in Limited Recruiter Access, Fort Worth
Weekly 5/10/06
~ No
Soldier Left Behind Now Dead Columbia Tribune 3/5/06
~ Angry
Families Rein In Recruiters With AB 1778, SF CHRON 5/6/06 ~
Recruiting
Data by Race/Ethnicity, 2004 stats.
~
Killing Civilians Reason to Not To Join Army, Common Dreams
4/29/06 ~ Civilian
Recruiting Contractors, Laurence, KS World 2/17/06
~ Military
Recruiting Statistics for California Zips/Schools/Counties &
Other States ~ Mining
for Kids, Pentagon Recruitment Database, Vermont Guardian 1/17/06
~ Join
Central CA Counter Recruit List Serve (send blank e-mail) ~
High Schools, No Child Act & Opt-out;
Colleges,
Solomon Amendment &
more
~
Recruiter
Schmoozing Tatics Excludes War Reality NYT 6/16/05
~
Recruting
Letters Debate: Army Cptn. Will Griffin, RCNV's Bob Fitch &
Others Indy Media 5/05
~
AWOL
& Deserter Crisis for Military, The Independent, 5/9/05
~ Hard
Times & Pressure for Recruiters, NYT 3/27/05
~ Recruiters
Short of Goals 3/3/05 Reuters
~
Marine
Recruit Dead; Parris Island Boot Camp Abuse 2/21/05
~ Army
Reserves, a "Broken Force" 1/6/04
~ Military:
Soldiers Challange Back Door Draft & Stop Loss 12/6/04
~
Fewer
Soldier Join Guard 12/4/05
~
Colleges
Can Bar Recruiters 11/30/04
~
Recruiters
Target Low Income Schools/Students 11/29/04 ~
Military:
Soldiers Challenge Back Door Draft & Stop Loss 12/6/04
~
Recruiter
Turns Activist and Tells All 10/10/04
~
Army Web War Games Recruit Kids, 10/01/04
~
"Operation Army Advertising"
~"Civilian"
& "Private" Military Expands
~ Counter
Recruitment in School Using Equal Access Law
~
Private
Sector Contracting Recruitment Operations (08/04) /
AP Article
REFUSENIKS,
AWOL - SOLDIERS WHO LEAVE, SOME LEAVE THE COUNTRY: ~
"Why
I Ran," Boise Weekly 5/10/06 ~
Bush went AWOL ~ AWOL
Escallating, Democracy Now, 3/15/05
~ AWOL
When There's No Other Option, Harpers 3/05 ~
Army
Pfc. Katherine Jashinski seeks CO, WI Journal 2/20/06
~ Pablo Peredes,
Navy Petty Officer Refuses to Ship, CO Refused 5/05
~ Enlisted
Departures On Rise Chi Daily News 1/22/06
~
Camilo Mejia, 1st Iraq Vet Refusenick, Counterpunch 5/05
~
Hinzman Denied Canadian Immigration 3/24/05
~ 5,000
Discharge Themslves & go AWOL Dem. Now, 3/15/05
~ Army
Guide for Handling Returning AWOLs 10/20/04
~ Options
for SoldiersSayNo(9/30/04)
~
Soldier
Jeremy Hinzman in Canada
~
Legal
Ways to Leave Military
~
AWOL
Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia, 28, Nat. Guard (5/14/04) &
Mejia
sentenced to 1 yr. (5/22/04);
~
Pvt. Brandon Hughey (5/15/04 article)
&
(Hughey
Canada Web Site)
~ Rad
Times Encourages Canada to Accept U.S. Deserters 6/3/04
~ Jeremy
Hinzman, Army CO Denied, Moves to Canada
MAJOR
COUNTER-RECRUITMENT Equal
Access -- When military is on a California high school or community
college campus counter-recruiters have legal equal access: legal
decision and history.
Student-led victory - "OPT-IN Truth & Privacy Resolution,"
alternative to "No Child Left Behind" Act adopted by Santa
Cruz City Schools:
Organizing
case study & resource/document links
~ Personal
narrative by Opt In Student-Organizer Josh Sonnenfeld
~ Federal
Challenge to "Opt-In"
~ Final
Compromise, "Airtight Opt-Out Plus"
WOMEN
IN THE MILITARY Abuse & Rape: ~ Women
Sexism & Abuse in Military, Aimee Allison 5/06
~ Pentagon
Covers Up Wide Sexual Abuse, 2/6/06 Workers World ~
Denver
Post, Extensive Documentary "Betrayal In the Ranks" w.
video testimony 10/03
MILITARY LIFE, REALLY!
~Soldier
Haunted by War Gets Orders, Patriot News 5/10/06
~ Military
Death Penalty, a Look Inside the "Castle," Counter
Punch 5/6/06 ~ "Bad
Stuff" Happening in Iraq Causes Severe Mental Problems, Washington
Post 5/14/06 ~ Army
Recruit Ethnicity 5/4/06 ~ Injury
Ignored, Soldier takes Own Life, Alternet 5/9/06 ~ Mentally
Unfirt Pressured into Combat, Chi. Trib. 5/15/06 ~ 72%
Iraq Troops Want to "Go Home" Counterpunch 3/2/06
~ 1/3
Seek Mental Health Treatment, LA TIMES 3/1/06 ~ For
One Marine, Torture Came Home, LA Times 2/14/06
~ Iraq
'Marlboro Man' Returns Home With Serious Battle Scars, SF Chronicle
1/29/06 ~ "Hold
On to Your Humanity" Stan Goff (US Army Retired) 11/03
~ Vet
Crusader for Soldier Rape Victims, Seattle PI 4/05
~ Marine
Corps Suicides Up 02/26/05
~
4yr
Army Air Vet Goes C.O. 1/3/04 ~ Army
Reserve Specialist Became Conscientious Objector After Witnessing
Abuse, Killing at Abu Ghraib 12/17/04 ~
Combat
Trauma Not a Viedo Game (7/20/04) ~
What It's
Like to Kill (7/18/04)
~ The
Price of Valor, New Yorker (7/20/04)
~ A
Quick Film
~
Military Myths
and Military
Myths Video (Can be rented, borrowed from RCNV, 831/423-1626
x309)
A DRAFT
- CAN YOU FEEL IT? ~ ACLU
Wins Opt Out Notification Requirement Case in Texas 1/28/05
~
Watsonville "No Child" Resistance, Sentinel 6/26/05
~ Most
Reject Draft, SJ Mercury News 6/25/05 ~
Draft
Inevitable? Del. News Journal 2/17/05
~ Mothers
Against the Draft 2/15/05
~ Recruiting
in Trouble, Draft Possible; Ret. Col. Hackworth 12/6/04
~ Pressure
for a Draft 10/20/04 ~ Draft
Bill voted down 10/07/04 ~
Will
a Draft Return? Mercury News 9/28/04
~
Agency
France via. Common Dreams 8/6/04
~
TRUTHOUT
Discussing Draft Rumors 7/1/04 ~ Reflection
on Possible Draft 05/04 ~
Is
a Draft Fair 5/7/04 ~
Only 7 Members of Congress w. Kids in Miltary, Fox News 3/28/03
~
MILITARY DETAILS:
~ Global
Military Sites/Commads
~ Pay
~
Grades
~
Pay & Benefits
~
gen. military
pay & benefits
~
military
salary
~
monthly
basic pay schedule
~
monthly pay calculator
~
feeling the pinch of Marine salary
~
keeping military
pay competitive with civilian
VETERANS INFO: ~
"The
War Within" Trauma There When Combat Ends, SJ Mercuty News
8/28/05
~
Trauma
Haunts 1/3 Returning Iraq Vets 2/28/05
~
Organizations/Program
helping Returning Vets ~
Homeless
Verterans talk about Coming Home 12/23/04 ~
Vets
Left in Dark about Benefit Cuts (7/7)
~
Bush
supports Veteran...benefit CUTS 6/04
~ Soldiers
as experiments - Gulf War Nuclear/Toxic Esposure
~ "Friendly
Fire" 75% Ally Casualties Desert Storm 6/6/04
~
Killing is quick; living with it difficult - Viet Vet Bill Green
(5/23/04)
~ Veteran
Speaks "Hold On To Your Humanity" 11/16/03
~
After
Veteran'sDay Vets Neglected
~
Cuts in
Veteran's Services "Shameful" 12/12/03
~
Bush
Abandon's Gulf War Vet Healtchare
~
Benefits,
in Prison, Homeless
~ Promised
Benefit Funding Denied
IRAQ War:
~
U.S.
Military Casualties & Details, Palm Beach Post 07/05
~
It's Official, No WMDs, "My Brother Died In Vain,"
LA Times 1/14/05, up-to-date
body count
~
9/23/03 Injury/Death Real Count Update ~
costs ~
corporate
contract invasion
IRAQ - U.S.
SOLDIERS:
~
Stress
Problems for 30% Returning Iraq Troops, Times Argus 7/29/05 ~
4yr
Army Air Vet Goes C.O. 1/3/04 ~Conscientious
Objector Witnessed Abuse, Killing of Iraqi Detainees at Abu Ghraib
12/17/04
~
12,000
Battlefield Casualties, ABC News 8/8/04 ~
Faces/Facts
U.S. Spec.
Pat Tillman Friendly Fire Death & Coverup 12/5/04
~
Military:
Soldiers Challnge Back Door Draft & Stop Loss 12/6/04
~
12,000
Battlefield Casualties, ABC News 8/8/04
~
Faces/Facts
U.S. Military Dead
~
Solder
Suicides Increse 6/5/04
~
"Shameless"
expansion of Stop Loss 6/2/04
~Suicide
Watch for troubled Iraq Military 5/21/04
~
Reserves
manditory "volunteer" call up 5/13/04
~
Serious
Casualties, Long Recovery 12/30/03
~
45
Casualties a Day 11/30/03
~
1,700
Soldiers Quit Iraq 12/04/03
~
Faces
of the Fallen, a Memorial 12/11/03
~
7,500
Casualties and More 11/15/03
~
"morale plummets"
~
Morale
"rock bottom"
~
Quotes
from combat troops
~
Soldiers For The Truth
~
White
House Ambushed by Military Dissent
~
Poor & Immigrants Dying in Front Lines
~
Returning
from Iraq War not simple
~
Reserves,
Get Ready to Go!
~
Monterey
CA Defense Language Institute, Language as a Weapon
~
Latino
Families, "Bring Our Children Home"
~
Sgt.
Duffey, N. Guard "Return" Repeatedly Revoked
~
Rise
in AWOLs & Desperation to Get Out
~
Hispanics
Pay Extra Price of War
~
Excessive
Suicides
~Pentagon
Survey, Half Of Troops Dissatisfied, Won't Reenlist
~
Oct
22, 30,000 More Reserves
~Lt.
Gen. Metz - Stay 'til '06
~
Terrible
Treatment for Sick & Wounded Soldiers
~
No
Job for Reserves Coming Home (11.7.03)
IRAQ & Military Families:
Dead Soldiers
Father Advises Latinos Not to Join 12/8/03 ~ Families
Condemn War 10/27/03 ~ Military
Families Speak Out ~ "bring
them home " say friends, families & lovers ~
Mothers,
Fathers & Families Pay the Price of War
IRAQ Front Line:
Reports/Actions from the Front Occupation
Watch
FUTURE OF THE MILITARY:
Here
is the basic plan for "The New American Century" of US
Militarism, 09/2000 ~ Rumsfeld's
New Army, A plan for the Future 11/25/03 ~
Army
Stretched to Breaking Point" 10/03
MILITARY COURTS & LAW: Uniform
Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) / Court
Martial Manual ~ Court
Martial 2002 Update
GETTING OUT OF THE MILITARY, REGULATION
FOR: from GI
Rights manual "Helping
Out:" Army ~ Navy ~ Marines ~ Air
Force ~ Coast
Guard ~ DOD,
Department of Defense
SELECTIVE SERVICE Link
HOT COUNTER-RECRUITMENT
POSTERS Link
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PRESS RELEASES: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/dodnews.htms#e--mail
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