Risk Management.(The Talk of the Town)(fraud mails for military recruitments)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 09-APR-07

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In the wake of a rise in substantiated instances of misconduct by its recruiters, the United States military, it was reported last month, is considering installing surveillance cameras in its recruiting stations. The military may also want to assess the tactics that its employees use in the virtual realm. This admissions season, an Army recruiter has been e-mailing recent college graduates with the offer of hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarship money to pay for medical school, in exchange for four years of service. Nothing new there. What's surprising is his assertion to students that they would be better off in Baghdad than in Georgetown.

Susan Kahane, who is twenty-two, graduated from Columbia last spring. When she took the MCAT, in August, she checked a box to signal that she wished...

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