What Everyone Should Know Before Joining the Military

05/14/2026

The "Answering Tough Questions” category is focused on essential questions about military recruitment, military service, the ethics of organized violence, and human survival in war. Each question is something a young person might ask or encounter realistically from a military recruiter, a teacher, a family member, a peer, or even a counter military recruiter activist — and each answer is concise, factual, and ethically grounded, without drifting into fear‑based messaging.

https://nnomypeace.net/toughquestions

05/05/2026

I watched the fall of Kabul, along with billions around the world. A tear formed in eye as desperate civilians tried to flee their country, only for most to be left behind. I saw the last American soldiers board their flights, returning home not in victory, but in defeat. I had no words. History was rhyming before our eyes. It was Vietnam all over again.

05/04/2026

The "Military Programs and recruitment methods in the Schools" webpage will describe the various programs and recruiting methods of the Department of Defense, some that have been in existence for some time and others recently formed. Many of these strategies for military recruitment, old and new, have been expanded in recent years and now a new trend of public military academies has emerged to target poorer youth in communities classified as "at risk" for crime and imprisonment. All the following programs and methods are generally funded under the Department of Defense's recruitment budget even though the DoD claims that these programs, like ASVAB testing and JROTC, are not for recruitment purposes.
Learn more about what goes on in our public schools to recruit youth into ongoing US conflicts around the world at: https://buff.ly/3zrnWnH

12/16/2025

Counter-recruitment in our high schools in an important moment in the U.S. where students are more aware of the reality of U.S. wars and military entanglements .......

09/22/2025

The U.S. funding of Israel’s war in Gaza has given students across the country a reason to question the presence of military programs in their high schools.

Many do not want to participate in a service that they believe is tied to a government complicit in “ethnic cleansing” and that has caused the deaths of many innocents, including non-combative women and children.

The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) is providing a packet of resources to inform those who wish to act against military programs that serve the purpose of military recruitment in schools.


https://nnomy.org/en/component/acym/archive/3357-peace-network-calling-for-youth-demilitarization.html

06/11/2025

https://www.inmaricopa.com/military-recruitment-surged-to-a-15-year-high-mhs-enlistees-tell-why-theyre-joining/

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Allen E. Kirksey Jr.’s classroom isn’t like other classrooms.

05/02/2025

Many good people join the military because they want to make a difference, to serve others. This is a great goal, but after joining, you may find out that it’s not the kind of service you expected, and then it would be too late to change your mind.

https://winningthepeace.org

03/30/2025

Available in English and Spanish.
Start handing them out to the female JROTC cadets at your school.
Order color brochures below.

https://www.warresisters.org/store/what-every-young-woman-should-know-about-the-military/

To view the brochure go to:
https://nnomy.org/youngwomenshouldknow

03/30/2025

WRL’s counter-recruitment work provides young people and their allies with the resources and training necessary to agitate against military recruitment in their schools and communities. WRL is a sponsoring organization of the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY). NNOMY is ...

01/07/2025

Before enlisting, think carefully about what it means to be a soldier for eight years.

Every member of the military, from the medic to the mechanic, is trained to fight and to kill, and the ongoing conflicts prove that fighting and killing can begin very suddenly. You may enlist to get job training or money for college, but eventually you may be faced with war.

You owe it to yourself to think seriously about when you believe it is justified to kill another person.



Learn More at: https://buff.ly/3q6e76U