Enrollment down in army ROTC

[brettdale]

Nationwide enrollment in the Army's Reserve Officers' Training Corps has slipped more than 16 percent over the past two school years, leaving the program, which trains and commissions more than six of every 10 new Army officers each year, with its fewest participants in nearly a decade

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12418-2005Apr23.html

[alittlelark]

1. It is so wonderful to know that our children are SO SMART!!!!

They ignore the ludicrous, and embrace reality !!!!

I knew our kids would ROCK!!!

[merbex]

3. Don't you think that in the back of their minds

a lot of kids are thinking " I better keep my grades up in case I get drafted?"

I mean, who really wants to be put on the front line of an army when you could be doing sokmething else? Something else,even in the Army?!

[Erika]

2. Duh.

Becoming cannon fodder for an imperialistic government is not too attractive.