Because whenever the subject of recruitment comes up around certain members of my own family, many of whom were active duty military, the mantra of “But the Army/Navy/Air Force/Marines support the troops’ FAMILIES.” So, quiz time… Every base has a Base Veterinarian and one of the divisions of that office is Exterminator. You know that the exterminators will inspect your homes for roaches, mice, rats, correct?
And will from time to time make a special announcement about having your housing unit ready for the Bug Spray Squad.

How many times do they tell you when they’re going to spray defoliants?

That’s Weed Killers. Roundup is a lower strength of what they usually spray, but the Monsanto Corporation sells the Pentagon some heavy duty versions of that, up to and STILL INCLUDING Agent Orange. Because every base is a “secured area” and there’s a lot of cleared ground, and the housing and other buildings arranged in rows and squares… did you notice? No tree lines, no areas of tall brush… part of it is to prevent fire, the other half to enable fire, do you know the meaning of that? By the way, any question answered with any version of “I don’t know” is a Red Flag.

How much did the Military tell you or your spouse about that?

How often do they put out poison for the birds on the flight line?

How often do they warn you about “sick” birds?

How do they word those warnings?

How do they warn you about your pets, to look for certain symptoms?

Do they teach your kids to not pick up sick or dead birds or other animals?

Do they routinely screen you, and your kids, for a genetic disorder called “Fragile X”? Or ANY of a short list of genetic tags that would demonstrate exposures to radiation or toxins?

Do they tell you, educate you AND your families, especially your kids… about a class of chemicals called Dioxins?

They DO poison the birds, rodents, skunks, coyotes, feral cats, foxes, etc.

If they don’t tell you when, Red Flag.

If they NEVER told you, RED FLAGS!!!

The Fragile X chromosome damage causes a wide variety of disorders especially in children, Pervasive Development Disorder, Autistic Spectrum Disorders including Asbergers, other neuro-motor disorders…

The weed killers ALL have a chemical in them, one or more dioxins. These aren’t the active ingredients, they’re a residual from the manufacture of the active ingredients, but they can’t take them out without destroying the “good” chemicals.

The active ingredients themselves, supposedly harmless to animals including humans, act on the leaves and any other green surfaces of the plants. The cells that transfer water, carbon dioxide (what the plants breathe in) and oxygen (what they exhale and we inhale) basically giving them the vegetable equivalent of emphysema. They can’t breathe and they die.

The dioxins can enter the human and other animals’ bodies through the water, mostly, eating contaminated food, or breathing the smoke from when the chemicals are burned. The Army and Air Force “buried” the investigation of their use of Agent Orange along with most of the Airmen and Soldiers exposed to it. They used to have the GIs rake up the dead vegetation, what little there was left, and burn it. Without telling them a damn thing about the dangers.

When the planes are coming in for a landing, they routinely dump fuel. This is so the plane, if it has a “bad” landing, as so often happens to Aircraft designated to kill other people, and therefore exposed to being shot at… because most people in the world object to being killed and will take what measures they feel necessary to NOT be killed…

So, did they tell you ANY of that? I know when I was in Basic the sergeant ordered me and a couple of my fellow Suckers to pick up the dying and dead pigeons and toss them in the dumpster.

Wasn’t supposed to. That’s a job for trained personnel using HazMat procedures and equipment. Did they tell US that? No, they most certainly did NOT.

So, when the Recruiter is Lying to YOUR kids at school and at Boy Scout gatherings, or at Community Picnic type events, Do You Have The Information Tools Necessary To Even Tell WHICH of the words spewing from their lying mouths is not just inaccurate but Dangerously False?

Do they REALLY care about the recruits and their families?

Oh, about clearing the vegetation and stacking the buildings in a certain order… that’s to enable GUN fire in case of an attack on the base. Something they worry about and prepare for even in the United States. The lines created by the way the buildings are arranged form grids which gunners can use for targeting. Now you know.

Ask again, Do they REALLY care about you, and your dependents?

If you don’t know… RED FLAG!!!

and how about all those brand new cases of “psychiatric” disorders popping up among Military and Dependents? Stress from The War, or Chemical and Biological Poisoning from The War Department?

Only now it’s called the Department of Defense.