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Military Children Left Behind: Decrepit Schools, Broken Promises
Over the course of six months, the Center for Public Integrity's iWatchNews examined the conditions of base schools attended by the sons and daughters of military personnel, and how those conditions might affect students whose parents are often deployed. Among their key findings were that tens of thousands of children attend schools on military installations that are falling apart from age and neglect and fail to meet the Defense Department standards.
Tags: base schools; military; defense department
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Pentagon Travel
"Pentagon Travel" details special interest involvement in Pentagon travel expenses. A year-long analysis revealed that between 1998 and 2007 22,000 Pentagon trips worth at least $26 million were funded by business and foreign interests. The Center for Public Integrity in conjunction with Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism uncover the specific Pentagon relationships with outside interests sponsoring military trips.
Tags: Pentagon; travel; expenses; outside interests; military; kickbacks
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Tucson Military Recruiter Ran Cocaine
Although FBI investigations had discovered military recuiters had been drug-runners for cocaine, the men were still allowed to visit high schools to recruit. Students were put into vulnerable situations with known drug runners as the FBI did not try and stop them.
Tags: cocaine; drugs; drug runner; recruiter; marine; earmy; high school; sting; FBI
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How Far Will the Army Go?
With the help of an undercover high school journalist KCNC revealed that Army recruiters in suburban Denver advised the 17 year old student about how to obtain a fake diploma and beat a drug test. After the story aired, KCNC received tips from across the country about similar recruiting practices. Following the broadcast, the military froze recruitment efforts for a day and re-examined recruitment policies and procedures.
Tags: military; US Army; recruiters; recruitment; US Navy
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More grads booking a path to college; Interest in military rises at Fayette high school
These articles are an analysis of what Pennsylvania's graduating high school seniors plan to do after graduating. It shows that more students plan on going to college than five years ago. The story also reveals that interest in joining the military is up in certain places. Cholodofsky also analyzes the data geographically, to show how students from regions around the state differ in their post-graduation plans.
Tags: college; university; high school; analysis; CAR; demographics
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U.S. Slow on Clean-ups
The Pentagon has resisted paying for clean-up of toxic substances from its former bases. Asbestos, perchlorate and trichloroethylene (TCE) have been deemed hazardous by the EPA and remain on lands previously owned by the Pentagon but that now house private families and schools. But the Pentagon has complained to the White House about EPA regulations and Bush appointees have responded by admonishing EPA officials, essentially creating separate and less stringent environmental standards for the military than for states, communities and private industry. Since 2001 clean-ups have slowed and an estimated 15 million acres of land remain contaminated with dumped munitions alone.
Tags: Military; EPA; contamination; toxic waste; military base closings; asbestos; TCE; Bush administration
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St. John's Military School
This KWCH investigation revealed a 10-year pattern of abuse at a Kansas military school. A tip from a former employee of the school prompted the TV station to FOIA police records, which noted 28 cases of abuse including boys being beaten with broomsticks, burned with lighters and kicked repeatedly. A related civil suit alleged staff negligence, and other discussions of abuse were found in an alumni chat room on the Internet.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; military schools; military academy; military cadets; St. John's Military School
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Biggest Burden of War are Shouldered by Small Towns, USA, and Struggling South Carolina Town Has Lost 3 To War.
These stories show that the burden of the Iraq war is falling disproportionately on small town America. As of May, 2004, 46 percent of the Americans killed in the war were from small towns outside of metropolitan areas. The reporters offer several explanations for this, such as people in small towns going into the military more often because they don't have as many career choices as people from big cities. The situation is illustrated by the sidebar on a town in South Carolina.
Tags: war; high school; military; recruitment; national guard
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Shifting Standards at AFA
A Colorado Springs Gazette investigation reveals that the United States Air Force Academy "let's in an increasing number of students who don't meet its academic minimums even as it rejects thousands of applicants who do. The largest share of waivers goes to to recruited athletes. A confidential Air Force report says waivered cadets are less likely to graduate, become pilots, move into critical high-tech jobs and rise to the service's top echelons. The report concluded the academy is 'losing its competitive edge.'"
Tags: Air Force Academy; cadets; academics; school; university; military; planes; pilots; training; war; bombs
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Plan Columbia
Colombia is now the third-largest recipient of US aid in the world after Israel and Egypt. The two-year, $3.2 billion aid package is to help fight "the war on drugs," by eradicating half of the nation's 300,000 acres of coca fields within five years. Yet others consider the escalating US military presence and its technological aid to the right wing paramilitary forces a thinly veiled military intervention, stabilizing the government in power against guerillas in the coca-producing regions. Kidnappings are up sharply, and others fear they'll increase even more if drugs profits are stymied.
Tags: Columbia; US Aid; War on Drugs; anti-narcotics; School of the Americas; U.S. military advisors; toxic herbicides; Plan Colombia; Pais Libre; kidnapping; FARC; ELN; death squads; human rights; Pentagon's Southern Command; Amnesty International; Paz Colombia; social inequality