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Grace K.
Professor Ganeshan
COM 102
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008
13 November 2017
Exploratory Essay First Draft
About year and a half ago, my life changed completely when my fiancé decided to enlist
in the military. At the time, we had been together for just about four years and him deciding to
enlist was a total shock for me. In the years past, he talked about wan
ting to go to college to
pursue a career in video game programming; however, that completely changed when he spoke
to a United States Marines recruiter at our high school career fair. He started going to the
recruitment office close to his house to speak w
ith a recruiter about joining. As soon as he
expressed interest in possibly joining, his recruiter was determined to deter his mind away from
going to college and stress that he should join the Marines instead. I questioned this since he was
only eighteen
at the time and did not really have a clear idea of what he wanted to do with his
life. I felt like his recruiter was pushing him into making a decision that he was not totally sure
of. However, his recruiter’s job was to get him to enlist by whatever mean
s necessary, so that is
exactly what she did. On July 25th, 2016, my fiancé officially enlisted into the Marines and
hopped on a plane to head to three months of military boot camp at Marine Corps Recruit Depot,
San Diego. After he was gone I was left wond
ering, are eighteen year olds really mature enough
to make a decision that will greatly impact their lives and the people around them? This
experience has caused me to ask the question, should the United States military be allowed to
target teenagers in it
s recruitment efforts?
The first source I decided to look at was an academic journal I found in the library
databases. The journal title immediately caught my eye, so I figured that it would be a good
place to start. The article titled, “Should We End Mi
litary Recruiting in High Schools as a Matter
of Child Protection and Public Health?â€, was written by Amy Hagopian and Kathy Barker. It
was published in
the
American Journal of Public Health
in January of 2011. Amy Hagopian has
her PhD and works in the Dep
artment of Global Health at the University of Washington.
Hagopian was also the president of the Garfield High School Parent Teacher Association from
2004 to 2006. Kathy Barker has her PhD as well and is a science writer. Along with Hagopian,
Barker is als
o on the board of the Garfield High School Parent Teacher Association in Seattle,
Washington. Considering these credentials, I knew these writers would be trustworthy sources of
information.
In this article, the authors start by explaining the public heal
th issues for young recruits.
Hagopian and Barker explain how “the bulk of newly enlisted military personnel are
developmentally in late adolescence
—
a time of relatively robust physical health but not
necessarily complete brain development or a wise tim
e to introduce high levels of stress†(19). It
is scientifically proven that a person’s brain is not fully developed until the age of twenty
–
five,
therefore, introducing eighteen year olds to this kind of stress can cause major problems. The
authors explai
n how high levels of stress can cause adolescents to be more likely to develop
mental disorders, like alcohol abuse, anxiety syndromes, depression, and post
–
traumatic stress
disorder. Studies have shown that “younger soldiers had 30% to 60% more substance
abuse
disorders than did older soldiers, and younger women in particular had the highest incidence of
attempted suicide or self
–
inflicted injuries†(19). This statistic presents a vital problem with
recruiting young people who are still maturing physically
and psychologically. The article also
talks about the efforts of the Garfield High School Parent Teacher Association. Hagopian and
Barker, along with other members of this association, tried to put a stop to military recruiting in
Garfield High School. On
ce the press got ahold of this news, the story spread like wildfire.
Ultimately, the Seattle school board worked with students and activists to come up with a
handful of rules to be put in place. The school board and these activists decided that “recruiter
visits were limited to one per semester, visits were to be announced in advance, and military
recruiters were no longer free to roam through the school building†(21). Although Garfield High
School worked hard to try and stop military recruiting, it is so
mething that can not be easily
avoided.
While reading this source, I was intrigued by the topics Hagopian and Barker brought up.
I am currently majoring in psychology, so all of the psychological aspects they brought up in this
article were ones that I wa
s familiar with. It is important to know that at eighteen a person is in
their peak stage of development and their brain is still maturing. I agree with the fact that
introducing high levels of stress to young people who are still maturing can cause proble
ms. The
statistics they put in the article about the rates of mental illnesses on young and old soldiers
definitely helps reinforce this belief as well. I appreciate how the authors took a stand in their
own community to try and warn Garfield High School a
bout the health issues that military
recruiting can have on young adolescents. Their efforts to try and ban military recruiting to keep
their students out of harm’s way was definitely inspirational to me.
Although I believe a lot of the important informa
tion shared in this article, there are some
points brought up that I question. I question the point Hagopian and Barker make about recruiters
being like predators. The authors explain how the behaviors of recruiters are remarkably similar
to those of child
predators who use “predatory grooming†to gain a child’s trust. While child
predators and recruiters may both use persuasion, I would not go as far to say that the words
should be used in conjunction. In my opinion, I feel like comparing the two terms is
a little far
fetched. Although recruiters do use persuasive measures to try and make people enlist, they are
not doing so in an illegal or abusive manner.
Overall, this source helped contribute many important ideas to my research question. I
learned more
about the health effects that can be caused by high stress environments at a young
age. Also, I was able to see statistics of how many young soldiers end up with mental health
issues, which was far more than that of the older soldiers. I enjoyed how the ar
ticle talked about
Garfield High School’s efforts to try and ban military recruiters from coming to their school. It
was interesting to see the outcome of a school who took a stand to make sure their students were
not being taken advantage of. For my next
source, I would like to look into more of the
psychological issues and health issues that can be caused by enlisting at such a young age when a
person’s brain is not completely developed.
Works Cited
Hagopian, Amy and Kathy Barker. “Should We End Mil
itary Recruiting in High Schools as a
Matter of Child Protection and Public Health?.”
American Journal of Public Health
, vol.
101, no. 1, Jan. 2011, pp. 19
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23. EBSCOhost, doi:10.2105/AJPH.2009.183418.
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