Some students feel strongly about joining the military whether they had previous family members in a branch or they have actually done research into how the military can aid them in the future.

Those who enlist and fulfill their obligation receive benefits, such as paid education and health care, vacation time, support groups, special payments for special duties and also pay for the cost of living.

This is good for students who feel as though they can not pay for college or feel like they don’t know where they want to go or what they want to do.

I come from a line where both of my grandfathers and great uncles and many relatives before me have volunteered their lives for our country. I understand how important our soldiers are and how the military plays a large role in America being a free country.

However, allowing recruiters to come into the schools to try to persuade students to be a part of the military, while they are in high school, is something I do not like. I feel like this forces some students who have decided what they want to do, to change their mind or become confused.

When recruiters come and have students do pushups or chin-ups in front of the whole lunch room for “prizes,” tons of “macho” boys line up. These potential recruits get up there, and the lunch room cheers them on to see how many times they can perform these physical challenges. I think this gives students a false sense of being cool.

I am all for military recruiters going out and trying to recruit as many recruits as possible into their branch of the military; however, I do not think that it is ok for them to try to recruit students in high school.