The 1990 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) set the legal minimum age for military recruitment at 15.

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Nevertheless, he has launched a review of military recruitment, training and promotions.

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In the fall, the US Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case involving several law schools that restrict military recruitment on their campuses.

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High unemployment rates helped military recruitment efforts in recent months, so much so that the Army estimates it's spending more money than necessary per recruit.

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And as a lot of you already know, while she was at Harvard, military recruitment either stayed the same or went up every single year that she was there.

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Military recruitment is strong, as it tends to be after wars, but the army is still below its nominal full strength, and multiple and long deployments will hit morale and retention.

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The military specifically brings in companies and public sector organizations that already have disability recruitment programs and that seek out military personnel.

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Analysts say the ambitious programme only makes sense if the military upgrades its training and recruitment.

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Everywhere you look there are recruitment posters for the military.

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Justice JOHN PAUL STEVENS: So that it would have violated the First Amendment during World War II--whenever they're trying to raise an Army if they had compelled an unwilling university to provide recruitment facilities to the military?

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Not surprisingly, the military was happy to play its part when it came to supplying props for what often resembles a teenage recruitment film.

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Michael Waller, the Center's Vice President for Information Operations, testified before the Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security regarding the long term threat posed by terrorist recruitment and infilitration in the U.S. prison system as well as the U.S. military.

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