Military Recruiter “Opt Out” Requests due Sept. 15

News Release
Department of Education State of Hawaii

Contact: Sandra Goya
Telephone: 808-586-3232

Date: August 25, 2009

Military Recruiter “Opt Out” Requests due Sept. 15

The federal No Child Left Behind Act requires the DOE to provide names, addresses, and telephone numbers (including unlisted numbers) of secondary students to military recruiters when requested. Secondary school students are broadly defined as students enrolled in middle, intermediate, and high schools.

A student in a secondary school can, on his/her own, submit a signed, written request for non-disclosure of his/her information. Or the parent/guardian of a secondary student or an eligible student (18 years or older) can submit an “OPT OUT” request.

Although not legally required, the DOE has developed an “OPT OUT” form for military recruiting to facilitate response from students or their parents. The form can be downloaded from the DOE website at http://doe.k12.hi.us.

If an “OPT OUT” for military recruiters was filed with the school during the 2007-2008 and/or 2008-2009 school year, the most recent request will be honored until the student leaves the Hawaii DOE public school system or until the submitter rescinds the “OPT OUT” request.

“OPT OUT” requests will be accepted at anytime during the school year. However, the DOE is required to turn over a student list to the Inter-Service Recruitment Council (IRC) in mid-October. If a request comes in after student lists have been submitted to the IRC, the DOE Information Resource Management (IRM) Branch will inform the IRC to have recruiters remove the student’s information from the list.

Students or their parents should submit “OPT OUT” requests to school offices no later than September 15. Schools will distribute annual notices by the end of August 2009. For questions, contact the DOE IRM Branch (808) 692-7290, option #5.

-DOE-

Poetry at Revolution Books

Revolution Books sponsors

An Afternoon of Poetry

with Darron Cambra, Tui Scanlan & Danny Sherrard
Sunday, August 30, 3pm

All three were on the Hawai`i slam team that went to Nationals. Each has their own CD or book of poetry. Join us in welcoming them to Revolution Books!

“OOF!” is what America did to Hawai’i

The Seattle Times ran an interview with Geologic of the Blue Scholars hip hop group.  Geo grew up in Hawai’i and was inspired by recent visits to write new songs about Hawai’i. The product is a new EP entitled “OOF!”.    Here’s an excerpt from the interview.

I don’t understand the title of “OOF!”

We actually did not put much thought into the title. What we do sometimes if we can’t come up with a dope title, we’ll just do like with films and whatnot, and give it a working title until we can think of something doper. That moment never happened with “OOF!”

I suggested it as a joke. The word itself is like a pidjin-ized local Hawaiian word that comes from the Samoan language, where oof, spelled u-f, or u-f-f, is basically a colloquial term equivalent to the word “f__k.” So it can be sexual, it’s…it’s mostly sexual.

Like, “We went home and we oof-ed”?

Yeah. Just like that. The titling of the EP as “OOF!” is kind of like an inside joke, and it’s kind of an inside joke that I played on Sabzi myself, being that he was intrigued by the title, but he actually didn’t know what it meant. Even after we approved the title and everything was sent to the manufacturer, he found out afterwards what the word really meant. I think he thought it was…

Nonsense?

Or, you know, the expression when you fall or hit something. And if that’s how you interpret it, that’s cool, too. What I’ve been telling people lately is “OOF!” is what America did to Hawaii. By pimping its resources and using it as a strategic military Pacific outpost, and just the destruction to the people and their land in the name of development. That permeates Hawaii.

This is a video of one of the tracks “HI-808”:

Youth Speaks Hawaii wins international contest for second year straight

Sorry, I missed this when it first came out.  Congratulations to the Youth Speaks Hawaii team!

Updated at 3:36 p.m., Monday, July 20, 2009

Youth Speaks Hawaii wins international contest for second year straight

By Ashlee Duenas
Advertiser Staff Writer

For the second consecutive year, Youth Speaks Hawai’i has taken top honors at the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival.

The Hawaii team competed against teams from around the world July 14-19 in Chicago, Ill., at the 12th annual competition.

The team took top honors last year in Washington, D.C.

“This is special to us because it’s the second year in a row we won the competition,” said Youth Speaks Hawaii coach Elizabeth Soto. “To my understanding, nobody has done that before.”

Poets ages 13 to 24 competed in a grand slam poetry competition to qualify for the 2009 Brave New Voices competition team.

The six poets chosen were Harrison Ines, Jill Fukumoto and four members of 2008’s winning team – Ittai Wong, Alaka’i Kotrys, Jocelyn Ng and Jamaica Osorio.

In May, Osorio was invited to perform as part of a night of poetry and spoken work hosted by President Obama at the White House.

Fifty teams from the U.S., United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago and Guam competed at the Chicago competition.

Soto said a rigorous practice schedule helped Youth Speaks Hawaii become the champions, including hours and hours of writing, re-writing and rehearsing.

“It’s the culmination of the kids’ hard work and their unity as a team,” Soto said.

Source: http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090720/BREAKING04/90720071/Youth+Speaks+Hawaii+wins+international+contest+for+second+year+straight

With jobs harder to find, work gets easier for Army recruiters

August 12th, 2009 6:36 pm

With jobs harder to find, work gets easier for Army recruiters

Traditionally the Army has attracted the young. But as the number of jobs dwindles across the country, more Americans are enlisting later in life, drawn by the promise of steady work and benefits.

By Alexandra Zavis / Los Angeles Times

If you’re looking for Michael March, he’s probably in the basement, slogging on the treadmill. Or he may be doing push-ups in front of the TV.

At 38, he wants to be prepared when he begins Army basic training later this week.

“I know I’m going to get picked on as the old guy in boot camp,” he said. “I don’t want to be last.”

Traditionally the Army has attracted the young, many of them fresh out of high school. They join for the promise of adventure, the chance to be part of something bigger, and a free college education. But as the number of jobs dwindles across the country, more Americans are enlisting later in life, drawn by the promise of steady work and generous benefits.

Although March may not be as fit as he was in his teens, his recruiters in Torrance say he brings to the Army experience and maturity that younger soldiers lack.

Not long ago, the Los Angeles Recruiting Battalion struggled to find applicants who met the minimum education requirements: a high school diploma or equivalent. Now, says the station commander, Staff Sgt. A.J. Calderon, he has people turning up with master’s degrees.

“I’ve been a recruiter for four years, and I’ve never seen that before,” Calderon said. “This is definitely a good thing for the Army.”

More than 1,800 recruits who were 30 or older signed up for the Army in the first half of the 2009 fiscal year that began last October, a 59% increase over the same period last year. The Los Angeles Recruiting Battalion enlisted 63 of them, a 50% increase. An additional 713 people 30 or older joined the Army Reserve, including 22 in Los Angeles.

Although the pace slowed over the summer, recruiters say they continue to get inquiries from people well over 30, many of them facing financial hardship because of the loss of a job or reduced work hours.

March, who is from Torrance, signed up in April. If he was feeling anxious about the decision, he did not show it when he walked into the busy office in a Torrance strip mall two weeks ago to meet with his recruiter before shipping out to Ft. Sill in Oklahoma. He had already shaved his head, and he smiled broadly when he was asked to stand in front of an American flag for a commemorative snapshot.

March had drifted between jobs for years as he tried to raise the money to complete a computer science degree. In 2007, he was offered a position managing the bars at the Tulsa County Fairgrounds in Oklahoma and thought he might make a career in the food and beverage business. But last November, he was laid off. Already deep into debt, he returned to California and moved in with his father.

“I figured I would get a job in a hotel, but there was nothing out there,” he said. “I had resumes out on every job search engine. I was interviewing three, four times a week. No one would offer me anything that I can support myself on.”

It took him three months to land a job making pizzas for $10 an hour, about what he was earning when he graduated from high school.

“That’s when I decided I could either rack up more loans while I complete my degree, or I can have the military pay for it,” March said.

March thinks it’s likely he will be sent to Afghanistan, where U.S. casualties are mounting. He’s decided the benefits outweigh the risks. In addition to a free education, the job comes with attractive health, retirement and housing options. March had also accumulated sufficient college credit to enlist as a private first class, which means more pay.

Four years ago, the Army would not have been an option for a man his age. The cutoff for new recruits without previous military experience was 35. But in June 2006, the Army, then barely meeting recruiting goals, raised the age to 42, the highest among the branches.

The Army has the military’s largest quota to fill, and along with the Marine Corps, its members have borne the brunt of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although the Army has met its annual recruitment goals every year since 2006, officers say it was difficult until recently — especially in large cities like Los Angeles, where there are many other options for young people.

But rising unemployment and recent cuts to the state welfare system have helped make the Army more attractive to people of all ages, recruiters say. They also credit security gains in Iraq and the expanded education benefits contained in the new GI Bill, which took effect this month.

With more applicants, the Army can be more choosy. In March, it stopped issuing waivers for recruits who committed serious crimes as adults or who tested positive for drugs or alcohol use.

The decision to raise the cutoff age brought in 1,329 additional active-duty soldiers in 2007 and 1,243 in 2008. But they remained a relatively small portion of the 80,517 men and women who enlisted last year.

Recruiters in Torrance said they have been receiving more inquiries since the fall, when major financial institutions collapsed and unemployment spread rapidly. As March went over a pre-boot camp checklist with his recruiter, two other people over the age of 30 dropped by.

Laurel Smith, 33, a divorced mother of two from Lomita, wanted to know if she could earn some money in the Army Reserve while searching for full-time work. Smith was laid off from two administrative posts this year. Then she learned the state was reducing her medical coverage to help close a massive budget deficit.

“It looks good on the resume to have the military experience,” said Smith, whose father was in the Air Force.

Brian Bolte, 40, served as a tank gunner in the Army Reserve after high school but left in 1990 to start his own printing company. He got married, had a daughter and bought a home in Redondo Beach. Last year, the bottom fell out of the printing business and he lost half his income.

Bolte had already weathered three economic downturns and decided it was time for a career change. So he went back to the Army to see if he could enlist as a military policeman and pursue a degree in criminology.

“I have faith the economy will turn around,” he said, “and hopefully I will be in a good position in five years when I come out.” Like March, he worries about keeping up with younger soldiers and has started training twice a day. But that is less of a concern to the Army.

“Today’s older adults are probably in better physical shape than previous generations,” said S. Douglas Smith, spokesman for the Army Recruiting Command at Ft. Knox, Ky. At the same time, he said, “these older recruits would bring a wide variety of life experience and maturity that our more youthful recruits might not have.”

For Calderon, who runs the Torrance station, the only drawback is that older recruits tend not to stay in the Army as long.

“The young ones tend to . . . make it more of a career,” he said. “The older ones go in, get the benefits and leave.”

March is planning to stay only long enough to clear his debts, pick up some new skills and finish his degree.

“A piece of paper means a lot, believe me,” he said. “It only took me 20 years to figure it out.”

Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-older-recruits11-2009aug11,0,4342762.story

Study seeks clues to soldier suicides

The military is trying to find the cause of suicide in soldiers’ genes or psychological profiles?  Why isn’t the military looking at the insanity of militarism and war itself.

I spent two hours last night talking with a vet who was harassed, isolated and tormented by his chain of command in Iraq to the point that he took his rifle and nearly blew his brains out, and all because he had reported his superiors for violations.  Instead of immediate mental health attention, this soldier was charged with assault against an officer.   The military culture can easily slip into a corrupt gangsterism. After that, it”s not far to the abuses of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.

On the Honolulu Advertiser website comments, HawaiiRon summed it up well:

take a sane person, teach him to kill and place him in an insane situation. How many times can you look into the eyes of another and pull the trigger before you go insane?

I am a Viet Nam era veteran, I never saw combat but I have talked to enough combat veterans to see the pain in their eyes and I hear it in their voices. killing is not normal … it’s opposite of what we are told all our lives .. even knowing you can kill scars you.. screw the study, take the 50 million and provide mental health care for all veterans … PTSD is a killer of military families.

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Updated at 7:55 a.m., Monday, August 10, 2009

Study seeks clues to soldier suicides

Washington Post

WASHINGTON – Doctors leading the largest study ever of suicide and mental health among military personnel are developing intensive soldier surveys that they hope will provide clues as to why suicide rates among Army personnel have grown dramatically in recent years.

The study, a collaboration between the National Institute of Mental Health and the Army, will seek data from every soldier recruited into the Army over the next three years as well as from about 90,000 soldiers already in the service, and the project could eventually involve half a million participants.

The soldiers will be asked to volunteer personal information that can be used to make psychological assessments. Family members might be contacted. In some cases, saliva and blood samples will be collected for genetic and neurobiological studies.

The information will serve as an “ongoing natural laboratory,” officials said, as researchers follow these soldiers for years, looking for commons strands as to which individuals are more likely to commit suicide.

“We’re looking at suicide as the culmination of a long chain of events,” said Robert Heinssen, the NIMH study director.

In 2008, 143 soldiers committed suicide, the highest number in the three decades that the Army has kept records.

“The most frustrating thing is trying to find a cause,” Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the Army’s vice chief of staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on July 30.

The five-year, $50 million study, which stems from an agreement in October between the Army and NIMH, is an ambitious attempt to solve the mystery.

Last month, Robert Ursano, chairman of the psychiatry department at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., was named to lead an interdisciplinary team of four research institutions involved in the project.

The study will be “complex in its design, and it’s looking at a rare phenomenon,” Ursano said.

A number of factors may play roles in suicide, according to Ursano, including post-traumatic stress disorder, family issues, alcohol abuse, and neurobiological factors.

Repeated deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere since 2001 is another factor, but one that does not by itself account for the increases in suicide, Ursano said.

“It’s a much more complex aggregate of factors,” Ursano said. “Deployment increases the stress on a family, but it’s clearly not the deciding factor.”

While the study will continue for years, the researchers are expected to quickly identify and report on potential risk factors to help the Army prevent suicide.

Source: http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200908100754/BREAKING/90810004

Blue Scholars new EP, free download of “HI-808” track

BLUE SCHOLARS To Release OOF! EP, tour Hawaii Offer Free Download of their “HI-808” Track

http://bluescholars.com/blog/releases/oof-ep/

Everybody loves Hawaii. Few know better than Blue Scholars’ MC Geologic, having grown up in Honolulu in the 1980’s and returning with the Scholars’ dj/ producer Sabzi last year to rock a sold-out homecoming show at Next Door. Love lingered in the air despite all the changes happening outside the sweaty, crackin’ club. “Development” has paved over lush lands and displaced longtime locals, the US military continues its stranglehold on the islands, and tourism runs tings (into the ground). By and by, the people maintain, and Blue Scholars bore witness to life beyond the beaches and resorts.

OOF! is the story about the Hawaii that you don’t see on TV: fish-fry BBQs in Waianae, native Hawaiians struggling for sovereignty, house parties on the Leeward side, uncles playing mah-jong on a lanai in Waipahu, a thriving independent hip-hop and fashion scene, on-air ciphers at KTUH, a room full of folks vibin’ to a mean reggae song, young poets spitting fire into mics, grubbing on poke in the Foodland parking lot, whole neighborhoods leveled by the ice epidemic.

Many “mainlanders” go to Hawaii to get away. Blue Scholars went to get it in. They returned again six months later with a New Year’s Eve show and a handful of new tracks inspired by the first visit, soon to be released in the form of their most collaborative multi-media project yet: OOF! available August 25th. Blue Scholars partnered with painter, vinyl toy & skate deck artist, Angry Woebots (www.armyofsnipers.com) who crafted a painting to go along with the lead song “HI-808” which will be turned into a limited edition print and t-shirt. The painting was created at the influential Hawaii based surf & skate boutique brand IN4MATION (www.in4mants.com). The cover for OOF! was designed by one of Hawaii’s premier photographers and historian of all things dope, Aaron Yoshino (Honozooloo / 5 to Life – www.honozooloo.com) whose photos have documented Hawaii’s subculture for several years. The video for Hi-808 was handled by The Island’s premiere video production crew, Kai Media, who shot in and around Oahu (edited by Zia Mohajerjasbi). All these groups have come together to create the OOF! project which will be sold as a complete package online using Topsin Media widgets at Blue Scholars’ and each project partners’ websites, with the EP being available separately at all digital retail outlets.

Anchoring the project is the OOF! EP, featuring five new Blue Scholars tracks and 5 instrumentals. The minimalism of the intro song “Bananas” yields to the familiar complex lyricism and production of “HI-808,” which documents the differences between the Hawaii Geo grew up in and the one he would later return to, laid over an 808-drum-dominated Sabzi masterpiece. “Hello” is a playful take on the escapism while “New People” is a truly original effort that almost treads dance music territory. “Cruz” is the duo’s ode to island life over a Jawaiian-reggae influenced beat. In addition to these tracks, all five instrumental versions will also be included, encouraging other artists to make their own songs with these riddims.

Along with its digital release, the OOF! EP will also be pressed into a limited-edition run of physical CDs which will be available exclusively from the Blue Scholars’ and other project partners’ websites and at the IN4MATION Ward location in Honolulu, HI.

Everybody loves Hawaii. But does it love you back? It might if you get that OOF! EP.

Download “HI-808,” a free track from OOF!

The whole project is part of Blue Scholars’ artist owned label MassLine, underwritten through a strategic marketing partnership with Seattle’s independent coffee company Caffe’ Vita, and marketed in collaboration with Duck Down Records.

Track Listing:

1. Bananas
2. HI-808
3. New People
4. Hello
5. Cruz
6. Ahi Riddim [Bananas Instrumental]
7. HI Riddim [HI-808 Instrumental]
8. Tako Riddim [New People Instrumental]
9. Postal Riddim [Hello Instrumental]
10. Havva Riddim [Cruz Instrumental]

Available August 25, 2009
Blue Scholars tour Hawaii:
9/18 Honolulu The Loft (18+)
9/19 Lahaina Hard Rock Cafe (21+)
9/25 Honolulu The Loft (18+)
9/26 Kona Rockstarz (21+)

New policy will shield students from some unwanted military recruiter contact

Good news! The State of Hawai’i Department of Education confirmed that starting this year all public schools in Hawai’i that choose to offer the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), the military-sponsored career aptitude test, must designate “Option 8” on the test that no student information or test results will be released to military recruiters.  (See the memo from Hawai’i schools superintendent Pat Hamamoto below)  Students may still choose to take the test and release their test results to the military.  In order for a student to take the test and have it scored, the student must request an authorization form from the military recruiting office, sign it and turn it in.

In the past, students who took the ASVAB test routinely had their information and test results forwarded to military recruiters without their knowledge or consent, even if they opted out of military recruitment lists under the No Child Left Behind Act.   Here is a list of schools in Hawai’i that administered the ASVAB in 2006-07. Parents and students in these schools might want to ensure that the schools are properly protecting student information and privacy if the ASVAB continues to be offered.

The tricky thing about the ASVAB test is that it is exempt from FERPA, the law that governs privacy of information in schools.   So student’s (even minors) signing the test answer sheet (a requirement for having the test scored) are authorizing that their information would be made available to the military: “To compute and furnish test score products for career/vocational guidance and group assessment of aptitude test performance; for up to 2 years, to establish eligibility for enlistment (only for students at the eleventh grade or higher and only with the expressed permission of the school); for marketing evaluation, assessment of manpower trends and characteristics; and for related statistical studies and reports.”

Last year, in the wake of recruiter abuse cases at Kapolei High School, AFSC Hawai’i worked with parents, counter recruitment activists and other concerned community members on a campaign to educate the Board of Education about the problem and to call for changes that close this loophole in the ASVAB policy. We submitted model policies to the Board of Education and warned that the release of student information through the ASVAB tests were a violation of student privacy and a liability to the DOE.

As some predicted may happen, a parent from Kona threatened to sue the DOE for the release of his son’s information to recruiters even after opting out of the No Child Left Behind military recruitment lists.  In this case, military recruiters had invited several youth to a pool party and told them to lie to their parents about their whereabouts. When parents found out that their children had signed up for the Marine Corps at this “pool party”, they were obviously quite upset.

The combined pressure led to the DOE adopting a new policy to make the “no release of student information” option the default on all DOE sponsored ASVAB tests. This parent had given us an early notice of these changes, but this is the first public confirmation we have seen.

Thank you and congratulations to all who testified and advocated for protecting the rights of youth and parents. This is a big win for peace advocates and an important measure to protect students.

Also, please note that the deadline for opting out of No Child Left Behind military recruitment lists is September 15, 2009.   The notification will not be as widely distributed this year.  So please help to inform students and parents of their right to protect their privacy from military recruiters.

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STATE OF HAWAII
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
P.O. BOX 2360
HONOLULU, HAWAII 96804

D A T E
08/05/2009 Action Required
Originating Office: Office of Information Technology Services,
Branch: IRMB

TO:
Complex Area Superintendents
Principals (all)
School Counselors
Testing Coordinators Due Date:
c:
Assistant Superintendents
Superintendent’s Office Directors
Deputy Superintendent
Charter School Administrative Office
Office of Curriculum, Instruction and Student Services
Office of Information Technology Services

F R O M:
Patricia Hamamoto, Superintendent
Office of the Superintendent

SUBJECT: ARMED SERVICES VOCATIONAL APTITUDE BATTERY (ASVAB) TEST ADMINISTRATION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (DOE) SCHOOLS

The ASVAB test is a voluntary aptitude test available to high school students. The results of the ASVAB test provide career/vocational guidance and establish eligibility for enlistment into the military.

Effective immediately, all DOE schools that administer the ASVAB test will choose “Option 8” for test administration. This option means that no student information will be released to the military services through the ASVAB test unless a student chooses to opt-in. Schools may also choose not to administer the ASVAB test.

The ASVAB test administration requires a student who chooses to take the test to sign a privacy act statement which reads, “Purpose: To compute and furnish test score products for career/vocational guidance and group assessment of aptitude test performance; for up to 2 years, to establish eligibility for enlistment (only for students at the eleventh grade or higher and only with the expressed permission of the school); for marketing evaluation, assessment of manpower trends and characteristics; and for related statistical studies and reports.” Without the student signature on the privacy act statement, his/her test will not be scored. School principals must be aware of this and notify the student and parent that they must opt-in for release of information in order to take the ASVAB test.

Students who opt-in to take the ASVAB test will be allowing their personal information to be released to the military through the ASVAB test and to be contacted by a military recruiter. Students who wish to opt-in to take the test must visit their local military recruiting office for the appropriate forms to do so. Attached are sample copies of the Form 680 to opt-in and Page 2 of the ASVAB test answer sheet.

If you need further assistance, please contact Karl Yoshida, Director, or Helen Uyehara, Information Specialist, Information Resource Management Branch, at 692-7263, or via lotus notes.

PH:HU:mc

Attachments

ASVAB answer sheet, pg2

Form 680 to authorize release of ASVAB information to military recruiters

Why is the Army National Guard hiring Internment / Resettlement Specialists?

Army National Guard hiring Internment / Resettlement Specialists.  Are they planning something?  Watch video on the website.  Pretty chilling.

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http://www.nationalguard.com/careers/mos/description.php?mos_code=31E

31E – INTERNMENT / RESETTLEMENT SPECIALIST
Description

Internment / Resettlement Specialists in the Army are primarily responsible for day-to-day operations in a military confinement/correctional facility or detention/internment facility. Internment / Resettlement Specialists provide rehabilitative, health, welfare, and security to US military prisoners within a confinement or correctional facility; provide custody, control, supervision and security to internees within a detention/internment facility; conduct inspections; prepare written reports; coordinate activities of prisoners/internees and staff personnel.

Some of your duties as an Internment / Resettlement Specialist may include:

* Assisting with supervision and management of confinement and detention operations
* Providing internal or external security to confinement/corrections facilities or detention/internment facilities
* Providing custody, control, supervision and escort to all security levels of U.S. military prisoners or internees/detainees
* Counseling and guidance to individual prisoners within a rehabilitative program
* Preparing or reviewing reports and records of prisoners/internees and programs

Training

Job training for a Internment / Resettlement Specialist requires 19 weeks, one day of One Station Unit Training (OSUT) which includes Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training. Part of the training is spent in the classroom and part in the field. Some of the skills you’ll learn about:

* Military laws and jurisdictions
* Level of Force Procedures
* Unarmed Self-Defense Techniques
* Police Deviance and Ethics Procedures
* Interpersonal Communications Skills
* Close confinement operations
* Search and restraint procedures
* Use of firearms
* Custody and control procedures

Skills

Helpful attributes include:

* An ability to think and react quickly
* An ability to remain calm in stressful situations
* An interest in law enforcement and crime prevention

Responsibilities

Advanced level Internment / Resettlement Specialist supervise and train other Soldiers within the same discipline. As an advanced level Internment / Resettlement Specialist, you may be:

* Responsible for all personnel working in the confinement/correctional facility, including security, logistical, and administrative management of the prisoner/internee population
* Supervising and establishing all administrative, logistical and food support operations, confinement/correctional, custodial, treatment, and rehabilitative activities
* Conducting stand-alone operations, providing command and control, staff planning, administration and logistical services, and custody/control for the operation of an Enemy Prisoner of War/Civilian Internee (EPW/CI) camp, detainee internment facility
* Conducting stand-alone operations, providing command and control, staff planning, administration and logistical services, and custody/control for the operation of a displaced civilian (DC) resettlement facility

Civilian Related

The skills you’ll learn as a Internment / Resettlement Specialist will help prepare you for a future with federal, state, county or city law enforcement agencies. You might also be able to pursue a career as a security guard with industrial firms, airports or other businesses and institutions.

National Counter-Recruitment and Demilitarization Conference a Success!

Here’s a brief report on the recent National Network Opposing Militarization of Youth conference in Chicago. Darlene Rodrigues (AFSC Hawaii Youth Peace Initiative) and Asia Collier (youth activist at Halau Lokahi) represented the AFSC Hawaii at the gathering.   The conference attendees also attended the National Youth Poetry Slam championships, which were held in Chicago.   YouthSpeaks Hawaii won the national championship for the second year in a row!   Congrats to YouthSpeaks Hawai’i. Also the Guam team made the finals. Many of the themes dealt with sovereignty, war, and demilitarization.

A slide show of the conference can be viewed here:
http://tools.afsc.org/slideshow/counterrecruitment.htm

—— Forwarded Message
From: Janine Schwab <JSchwab@afsc.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:49:50 -0400

Dear Colleagues,

Last weekend, staff from almost every AFSC regional office participated in the NNOMY (National Network Opposing Militarization of Youth) National Counter-Recruitment and Demilitarization conference (more information, see www.nnomy.org). You can see a slideshow about the conference on the AFSC homepage at www.afsc.org <http://www.afsc.org><http://www.afsc.org> (right sidebar).

Fast Facts!

* There were about 300 participants from almost every state in the union

* NNOMY counts 188 organizations doing counter-recruitment work among its membership

* We met our goal of bringing 100 youth to the conference, including 60 from AFSC programs in Atlanta, Hawaii, Chicago, Portland and San Francisco/Bay Area

* There were 33 workshops with over 75 presenters working in teams

* NNOMY groups identified 21 critical resources needed for carrying out work in their communities, including a brochure for youth on the morality of war and updates of AFSC’s Junior ROTC analyses

Highlights!

* Youth were able to attend the Youth Poetry Slam National Championships happening at the same time in Chicago. Competitors addressed issues of military recruitment in their communities, further validating the work we were doing at our conference

* David Morales, a youth from San Diego whose principal punished him for counter-recruitment activities by denying him his high school diploma, finally got the graduation ceremony he deserved with a graduation cap fashioned together from construction paper

* Youth traveled to the conference with Tim Franzen (AFSC-Atlanta), Pablo Paredes (AFSC-San Francisco) and Mireaya Medina (AFSC-Portland) — making the long drive from Atlanta in a van and from the West Coast in a rented bus for a trip of discovery and sharing that will not easily be forgotten

Janine

Janine Schwab
National Youth and Militarism Program
American Friends Service Committee
1501 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
215-241-7165 (phone)
215-241-7177 (fax)
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