New battle lines separate military recruiters, foes

February 27, 2007 By
Posted in Military News, Veteran Benefits

There’s a new front in the president’s global war on terrorism.

It’s not a conflict in the streets of Fallujah or the hills of Afghanistan, but a hometown war of information between military recruiters and counter-recruiting activists who hope to end the war by keeping teenagers out of military uniforms.

Led nationally by groups such as the American Friends Service Committee and the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, the counter-recruitment effort also is growing on the local level. Though their numbers still are relatively small, counter-recruitment groups are at work in Fresno, Visalia and Reedley.

Read more at FresnoBee.com

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