The Swedish Armed Forces – The team test. British Army exploits recession to step up youth recruitment. By Zach Reed 15 January 2010 The British Army is stepping up its recruitment campaigns amongst youth and schoolchildren as it seeks to fulfil commitments to fight new colonial wars around the world. The army’s job is eased by the social destruction wrought by the breakdown of British capitalism and the sharp increase in joblessness, particularly among youth and young workers. Almost 1 million of young people aged 18 to 24 years of age are currently unemployed. Consequently, the last period has seen a rise in recruitment. Some 22,620 new recruits joined in the year to March 2009—a substantial increase on the 11,460 three years ago. Before the recession, the army was relying on increasingly desperate measures to overcome its manpower shortage. The army claims increased interest from colleges and universities, traditionally reluctant areas for recruitment. Following the STS campaign, the army has opened new showrooms in high streets.
The author also recommends: Army 'recruiting children as young as seven in schools', claims. By NEIL SEARS Last updated at 10:43 11 January 2008 Children as young as seven are being groomed for recruitment by the Army, which gives a "glamorised" and "gamelike" view of warfare, it has been claimed. A study, funded by a Leftwing trust, says increasingly young children are being given a "misleading" picture of life in the armed forces, with vital information left out and risks ignored. The Ministry of Defence rejected the claims, saying much of the study was "incorrect and ill-informed". It agreed that junior schools were visited by Army education teams, but insisted this was to raise awareness of the forces rather than to target children as future recruits.
Britain is the only EU state to recruit military personnel as young as 16. The study was carried out with funding from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. His report says: "Recruitment literature emphasises potential benefits: Career interest and challenge, comradeship, the active lifestyle, travel and training opportunities. Mode Immersion - avec M6, W9, Skyrock.com et l'Armée de Terre. PORTUGAL • Deux heures dans la peau d’un soldat | Courrier inter. Le Musée militaire de Porto propose aux ados une initiation de deux heures à la vie de soldat. Discipline, sanctions, effort, esprit de corps, le discours ne convainc pas vraiment les jeunes, constate Público. Dans un récent film à succès [Les Chèvres du Pentagone de Grant Heslov], un groupe de militaires américains se spécialise dans le combat mental et parvient à tuer des chèvres rien qu’en les regardant avec intensité.
Au Musée militaire de Porto, la tâche du sergent Mariana Teixeira semble bien moins complexe. Elle consiste à transformer un groupe d’adolescents distraits en recrues en leur parlant aussi durement que possible. Et, pourtant, la prouesse avec les chèvres est sans doute plus simple à réaliser. “A partir de maintenant, vous ne faites qu’un !” Le programme Agora eu era um tropa [Maintenant je suis un militaire] existe depuis 2001, année où Porto, alors capitale européenne de la culture, avait lancé le défi aux musées de créer des animations à destination des familles.