FBI: Gang members joining military

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/105835.php/FBI:-Gang-members-joining-military

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Motorcycle and street gang members have joined the U.S. military and served in Iraq, a new FBI report says. snip

Recruiters are not trained to look for signs of gang membership, the report said. Others ignore criminal records of willing volunteers -- such as the recruiter who concealed the fact that a member of the Latin Kings was awaiting trial for a razor assault on a New York police officer.

The FBI said some gangs recruit veterans or serving members of the military because of their experience with explosives and firearms. Other gang members may join up to get access to weapons and equipment.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. I've heard that neoNazi groups

encourage their members to join the military so that they can get training. This whole gang/neonazi recruiting thing gives me the creeps.

[WI_DEM]

2. This is one of the results of lowering the standards so that Bush

can increase the size of the military and may be one of the reasons why there have been so many military personnel in Iraq who've done some pretty awful things.

[BuyingThyme]

3. Only the best and the brightest gang members.

[woodsprite]

4. I thought that's what Laura was supposed to be doing.

Wasn't she put in charge of that? :shrug:

[Sapphire Blue]

5. SPLC: neo-Nazis & Skinhead in the military preparing for a race war.

A Few Bad Men
Ten years after a scandal over neo-Nazis in the armed forces, extremists are once again worming their way into a recruit-starved military.
by David Holthouse

July 7, 2006 -- Before the U.S. military made Matt Buschbacher a Navy SEAL, he made himself a soldier of the Fourth Reich.

Before Forrest Fogarty attended Military Police counter-insurgency training school, he attended Nazi skinhead festivals as lead singer for the hate rock band Attack.

And before Army engineer Jon Fain joined the invasion of Iraq to fight the War on Terror, the neo-Nazi National Alliance member fantasized about fighting a war on Jews.

"Ever since my youth -- when I watched WWII footage and saw how well-disciplined and sharply dressed the German forces were -- I have wanted to be a soldier," Fain said in a Winter 2004 interview with the National Alliance magazine Resistance. "Joining the American military was as close as I could get."

Ten years after Pentagon leaders toughened policies on extremist activities by active duty personnel -- a move that came in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing by decorated Gulf War combat veteran Timothy McVeigh and the murder of a black couple by members of a skinhead gang in the elite 82nd Airborne Division -- large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists continue to infiltrate the ranks of the world's best-trained, best-equipped fighting force. Military recruiters and base commanders, under intense pressure from the war in Iraq to fill the ranks, often look the other way.

Neo-Nazis "stretch across all branches of service, they are linking up across the branches once they're inside, and they are hard-core," Department of Defense gang detective Scott Barfield told the Intelligence Report. "We've got Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad," he added. "That's a problem."

Continued @ http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?pid=79

'Planning a Skinhead Infantry'

(excerpt)

Light infantry is your branch of choice because the coming race war, and the ethnic cleansing to follow, will be very much an infantryman's war. It will be house-to-house, neighborhood-by-neighborhood, until your town or city is cleared and the alien races are driven into the countryside where they can be hunted down and "cleansed." Operations will consist primarily of patrolling, ambush, raids, cordon and search, search and destroy, assault on fortified positions, and point and area defense of White enclaves -- all light infantry missions.

When you go to the Army recruiter and tell him you want to be an infantryman -- and let me emphasize this, tell him you want infantry and accept nothing else -- your unit of choice priorities are, in order, as follows: 75th Ranger, 82nd Airborne, 101st Air Assault, 10th Mountain, 25th Infantry.

Recruiters these days are against the wall. Last year every branch of service failed to meet their recruiting quotas. ... If a half-dozen strapping young White men strolled into an Army recruiter's office and said, "We want to be infantrymen," the recruiter swoon and faint away out of nothing but pure joy at his deliverance from his pressing monthly quota.

Don't even think your Africanesque ritual scarring will be overlooked or ignored. ... Confess your sinful tattoos to the recruiter. Tell him or (gagging) her, that you were young and stupid and got mixed-up with a bad crowd, followed the mindless herd, but now you deeply regret it, wished you had gone to church instead of skinhead concerts, and please, oh, please, I don't think that way anymore, I love Negroes as my brothers and won't you please, oh, please help me prove I've become "tolerant" and a lover of "diversity" by letting me join the Army that is "America's model for race relations?"

At some point in the process you will be asked if you belong to any "extremist" organizations or espouse any "supremacist" causes. Lie. The only acceptable answer to any question like that is "no."... During Basic Training you will be ordered to strip to be inspected for "Bad Tattoos." However, having made it this far it is unlikely you'll simply be kicked out.

Do not -- I repeat, do not -- seek out other skinheads. Do not listen to skinhead "music." Do not keep "racist" or "White supremacist tracts" where you live.

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?sid=21

[Bandit]

6. I remember when the "Hell's Angels" volunteered to go to Vietnam

Most thought that was hillarious and no one in power gave it one serious thought..

[kentuck]

7. Is that why so many want to return so they can protect their "buddies"?

Gang members are very much into protecting each other. They have loyalty to their gang- not the country or anything else. Perfect for the military.

[SanCristobal]

8. This story comes up every few years.

I'm pretty sure it's just a stockpile scare tactic that the media breaks out on slow days. After all, it's not like there is much interesting news lately...