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Topics => Military News/Veterans => Topic started by: Pandora on October 23, 2011, 02:33:20 PM
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The FBI has released a new gang assessment announcing that there are 1.4 million gang members in the US, a 40 percent increase since 2009, and that many of these members are getting inside the military (via Stars and Stripes). (http://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-gang-assessment-us-military-2011-10)
The report says the military has seen members from 53 gangs and 100 regions in the U.S. enlist in every branch of the armed forces. Members of every major street gang, some prison gangs, and outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMGs) have been reported on both U.S. and international military installations.
From the report:
Through transfers and deployments, military-affiliated gang members expand their culture and operations to new regions nationwide and worldwide, undermining security and law enforcement efforts to combat crime. Gang members with military training pose a unique threat to law enforcement personnel because of their distinctive weapons and combat training skills and their ability to transfer these skills to fellow gang members.
The report notes that while gang members have been reported in every branch of service, they are concentrated in the U.S. Army, Army Reserves, and the Army National Guard.
Many street gang members join the military to escape the gang lifestyle or as an alternative to incarceration, but often revert back to their gang associations once they encounter other gang members in the military. Other gangs target the U.S. military and defense systems to expand their territory, facilitate criminal activity such as weapons and drug trafficking, or to receive weapons and combat training that they may transfer back to their gang. Incidents of weapons theft and trafficking may have a negative impact on public safety or pose a threat to law enforcement officials.
The FBI points out that many gangs, especially the bikers, actively recruit members with military training and advise young members with no criminal record to join the service for weapon access and combat experience.
The full assessment is definitely worth checking out, if only for the pictures.
H/T The Blaze
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Maybe once the Army becomes all queer it will lose its appeal for the bangers...
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Funny, how back in my day such concerns didn't exist...we had some of the "it's enlist or do time" types, but even then they were mostly nonviolent offenders, not hardened gang-banging trash...they latter would get filtered out by the recruiter or during boot camp.
More signs of decrepitude creeping into our armed services...given the advanced state of decrepitude in society as a whole I guess it was always just a matter of when not if...
::facepalm::
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This is all the result of our society being afraid to offend anyone and actually being proud of having principles.