The army is still in a recruiting slump and I've been giving some thought to how they could change this. I think if they give the people they sign up a pound of marijuana they'd get more people from the gang infested and heavily violent areas in our country. Just hang around Flint Michigan with Marine recruiters passing a bowl. Looking from Crips or Bloods. It would work. They all have the same color uniform after recruitment anyway. Just give them what they'd want to get in. You've got a militarized populace there. Our ass backward corporate ghettos can easily supply troops for our country. They know how to shoot already as it is. Why not use that economic inequality. Just ask the CIA for a little share of their drugs and hey you'd have divisions of willing young men. A pound on enlistment and a brick a month. That would solve the waning interest in joining the military as opposed to going to college for six years for the master's degree required to get any job paying over 35k a year to start. Six years in the army with all the pot you can smoke, lots of ammo, and a ready supply of targets is all you need to get the violent disenfranchised population of our poor urban centers. Just a thought.
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Ironically I'm considering reenlisting, but when a thought like this hits I just have to go with it.
