2007-01-20 22:15:11 · 18 answers · asked by jaybeefromhiscastle 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
I guess you must have missed the fact that elitist Democrats who are offended by the "don't ask, don't tell" policy of our military have barred recruiters from their campuses.
2007-01-21 03:17:12 · answer #1 · answered by Sassy 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
How many of these Ivy League colleges have ROTC programs? When you say Ivy Leave college, most people think Harvard, Yale, Princeton. These are colleges of the elite rich, and don't believe in supporting our country by volunteering for military service. Most that are in the military are not under educated, or from the poverty group as much as most think. I know more people that have college education from the benefits of the military than those that have gone to college on their own. People join the military for patriotism, and the chance to get the college money. Most military training give college credit. Navy Nuclear Propulsion school is one the hardest schools to attend in the world. These persons are not the under educated. Not all the jobs in the military require an overly large mental capacity, but they do require the dedication, and discipline the military gives.
2007-01-21 23:44:29 · answer #2 · answered by GIOSTORMUSN 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It comes down to a number of factors.
1. numbers, there are far higher numbers of potential cannon fodder going to the supermarket than are at ivy league colleges.
2. the future. Ivy league colleges are stuffed full of the future surgeons, judges, business leaders etc. If these fine young people are cut down in their youth, the nation's future will suffer. whereas if the supermarket people are taken off and slaughtered, mutilated and poisoned with depleted uranium, it is easy to replace the burger flipping skills that are lost.
3. the small number of students at the ivy league colleges that have a desire to enter the military, usually go to a military academy and enter the service as an officer.
4. the parents of the ivy league students often have influence and can make sure that their precious little bundle of spoiled arrogance get deferments indefinately. (Dick Cheney springs to mind)
Long gone are the days when our leaders led the troops into battle.
2007-01-21 06:34:35 · answer #3 · answered by kenhallonthenet 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because students at Ivy League colleges were most likely reared by parents who are alumni of Ivy League Colleges. Therefore they have been taught not to believe "Arabs bearing gifts". What a military recruiter tells you and what actually transpires are totally different. Simply put, to get the quota required, a recruiter is forced to embellish the facts.
2007-01-21 06:42:38 · answer #4 · answered by scallywag 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
A good reason could be a lot of people join for the college money offered....if they are already away at college, i assume its paid for or being paid for. Also most who are in college wouldn't probably join until after college was done, so why try to recruit someone and have them give up their college?
2007-01-21 08:54:44 · answer #5 · answered by misty n justin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello, i graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, an ivy league school and went in the army. I guess my degree became null and void the second i joined. I'm tired of thinking that military people are stupid, its disgusting. I could be making real money in the civilian world, but am far happier serving in the military and serving in iraq two times. Don't generalize, it makes you look stupid. Just be happy people from all walks of life volunteer to serve, so you can make jokes.
2007-01-21 07:52:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
Because, by and large and especially in the current climate, they know that they're less likely to be successful with the Ivy League.
Unfortunately the military finds that it suits them to recruit from the poorly-paid, poorly-educated, for whom it seems one of the few routes out of their situation. Then, after training them badly, they throw them into situations like Iraq and finish up with situations like Abu Ghraib. It's no accident that the communities who lose the most people are the poorest, the darkest, and the most discriminated against; just as it's no accident that the people who are resigning their commissions are at the other end of the scale and prefer not to be implicated in war crimes by the utter stupidity of their commanders.
2007-01-21 06:22:57 · answer #7 · answered by mrsgavanrossem 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I have never personally seen ANY recruiter outside of a supermarket! They plague our high schools, though, and rent out tiny, tiny pieces of shopping strip centers. But why not sift through those unemployed white collared blokes who insist on looking down upon the working class and give at least some of them a chance to actually earn the right to critisize the country most of them won't even fight for?
2007-01-21 07:34:39 · answer #8 · answered by Jana Q 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Do you understand who goes to Ivy League colleges? It's big bucks to get in there and people with big bucks are not going to be the "one" that does the marching.
2007-01-21 06:24:35 · answer #9 · answered by towanda 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because people at ivy league colleges have better career prospects and can choose what they do. Supermarket punters and poorly educated people see the army as an escape route from poverty. This has always been the case and army recruiters know it.
2007-01-21 06:20:39 · answer #10 · answered by smudgeuk9 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Ivy Leagers have other aces up their sleeves than the Military.
Like better ways of making $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!
2007-01-21 06:49:10 · answer #11 · answered by stray cat 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋