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Photo Essay | Actors in Character

Interesting flash photo essay of some of America’s most famous character actors reacting to different news. they’re all good, but if I had to choose two favorites, Chevy Chase reacting to “…hearing your adolescent daughter proudly announce that she’s had “something” pierced.” and Rosemary Harris reacting to  “You are a loving wife after a visit to an assisted-living facility, where your husband can no longer remember your name”.

AP Probe Looks at Recruiters’ Misconduct

More than 100 young women who expressed interest in joining the military in the past year were preyed upon sexually by their recruiters. Women were raped on recruiting office couches, assaulted in government cars and groped en route to entrance exams.

A six-month Associated Press investigation found that more than 80 military recruiters were disciplined last year for sexual misconduct with potential enlistees. The cases occurred across all branches of the military and in all regions of the country.

“This should never be allowed to happen,” said one 18-year-old victim. “The recruiter had all the power. He had the uniform. He had my future. I trusted him.”

At least 35 Army recruiters, 18 Marine Corps recruiters, 18 Navy recruiters and 12 Air Force recruiters were disciplined for sexual misconduct or other inappropriate behavior with potential enlistees in 2005, according to records obtained by the AP under dozens of Freedom of Information Act requests. That’s significantly more than the handful of cases disclosed in the past decade.

The military can give a young person a great start in life or even make a great career it is a shame that these patriotic Americans showed an interest in the military and their first impression is that the armed forces are full of sexual predators. While yes some of the complaints turned out to be false, most were not. I wonder about the mind set of those recruiters how they thought there behavior reflected on the services they were supposed to promote. Recruiters are generally chosen for qualities like being personable and positive, being able to relate well to others and in these incidents they’ve used those qualities to prey on others. Shame on them.