Task & Purpose: The Recruiters: Searching For The Next Generation Of Warfighters In A Divided America
On a muggy Tuesday afternoon in August, Staff Sgt. Justin McDonald, a U.S. Army soldier with the Mid-Atlantic Recruiting Battalion, was piloting a government-issued Dodge minivan through northeast New Jersey, giving me a tour of his sector, when a man suddenly appeared in the road. He was tall and sinewy, wearing a bright red do-rag, and he had a pistol tucked into his waistband. Or at least that’s what I discerned through the fabric of his dirty white tank top. It could’ve been a water gun, or a banana. Whatever it was, he was clutching it with one hand while motioning for us to stop with the other.
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WNU Editor: The military cannot compete in an economy that has near zero unemployment, and better opportunities. On the bright note .... most of the soldiers that they do recruit are individuals who want to be a soldier .... not necessarily those who want a job and/or a way out of their neighborhood.
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