In an effort to increase its ranks for coming wars, the U.S. military>is recruiting - and paying - children as young as 14 years old for>future combat duty.>

Carla Bloomer agrees with Tom that poor children have few options, but>rankles at the suggestion that selling military service to a child is>an answer to the problem. And she didn't even know this was an issue>until she learned a recruiter had talked to her 14-year-old son and>convinced him to sign up.>

"He's not smart enough to make a decision like that at this point in>his life," she says. "That recruiter came in and played to his>teenager's sense of invincibility and know-it-all attitude and>convinced him this was the best thing for him to do. In the end, I had>to give in and let him sign up.">

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In an effort to increase its ranks for coming wars, the U.S. military> is recruiting - and paying - children as young as 14 years old for> future combat duty.

In an effort to increase its ranks for coming wars, the U.S. military>is recruiting - and paying - children as young as 14 years old for>future combat duty.>

Carla Bloomer agrees with Tom that poor children have few options, but>rankles at the suggestion that selling military service to a child is>an answer to the problem. And she didn't even know this was an issue>until she learned a recruiter had talked to her 14-year-old son and>convinced him to sign up.>

"He's not smart enough to make a decision like that at this point in>his life," she says. "That recruiter came in and played to his>teenager's sense of invincibility and know-it-all attitude and>convinced him this was the best thing for him to do. In the end, I had>to give in and let him sign up.">

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