In this page, the CSRA Peace Alliance has compiled information on the following topics:

• Facts about Life in the Military and After Service Which Your Recruiter Might Not Tell You
• Information About non-Military Career Alternatives
• How You can Protect Your (or your Child’s) Personal Information From Reaching Military Recruiters

Facts about Life in the Military and After Service Which Your Recruiter Might Not Tell You

• Women in the Military
  • Female veterans rebuild stability by Adam Folk in Augusta Chronicle, October 10, 2009
  • Sexual Harassment and Assault in the Military

Information About non-Military Career Alternatives

How You can Protect Your (or your Child’s) Personal Information From Reaching Military Recruiters

• Public high schools must release high school students’ contact information to military recruiters under the No Child Left Behind Act unless parents opt-out, meaning they submit in writing a request for the school not to release their child’s information. Visit leavemychildalone.org.
  • Richmond County
    • Richmond County Opt-Out Form in MS Word and Adobe Formats
    • Richmond County Form from web site, updated February 2, 2010 and added to Frequently Used Forms page
  • Columbia County
    • Columbia County currently requires parents to compose their own letters to their children’s schools.
    • Note that Columbia County high school student/parent handbooks do not mention military recruitment. In addition, the Policies and Procedures manual does not mention the military.
  • Aiken County
• Armed Forces Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) Test
  • Teens Frustrate Military Recruiter’s ASVAB Scam
  • What Students and Educators Should Know about Military Testing in our High Schools
• Recruitment Outside of Public Schools
  • OPT-OUT of the national Pentagon database known as Joint Advertising Marketing & Research Services (JAMRS)