Military Recruiting & Recruitment Quotes

26 years after he wrote this, both the Government and the Southern Rebels had introduced military conscription, and with few exceptions, it has prevailed through the 20th century, and then replaced by a volunteer army concept.

Ellis Island was the facility that all East Coast immigrants to America came through. Army recruiting took place right there. Irish Immigrants in particular were targeted by the army. For many Irishmen, it was a very attractive prospect. They received a clean uniform, food, and an immediate pay check and provided a security not offered in the civilian economy. However, they were immediately shipped off to Mexico for the war effort.

This Civil War recruiting poster was described by the Free Library of Philadelphia as “Civil War recruitment print targeting African Americans by evoking the freedoms granted by the Emancipation Proclamation. Depicts a montage of symbolic scenes centered around an African American Union soldier triumphantly holding up a sword and an American flag with the banner "Freedom to the Slave." He stands near broken shackles upon a tri-color flag adorned with a coiled snake. The flag is tugged upon by one of three joyous slaves freed by an African American soldier. Other scenes depict an African American man reading a newspaper on a rocking chair near a plow and child, African American children entering a "Public School" near a church, and a regiment of "U.S. Colored Troops" marching across a battlefield strewn with dead bodies.”

The British were about to attack New Orleans in the War of 1812 with an invasion force of their best professional soldiers. The Americans needed all the help they could get and Claiborne and the Military commander, General Andrew Jackson, came up with this idea to try and get the pirates and smugglers pardoned if they would fight against the British. They did and General Jackson with his augmented army routed the British in the last battle of the war. (It was actually fought after the war was over, but the word that the peace treaty had been signed had not yet reached either side.)

Drumbo was morally opposed to war. He also refused to name Hollywood communists to Congressional Committees during the Red Scare. He was then blacklisted from his occupation, screen writing.

The Congress was encouraging all men volunteer for the military and defend the new nation now that the British were landing in force to put down the revolution. By modern language standards, this is a little “over the top” but it shows not only the passion felt by the Congress but the importance they placed on the struggle.

The attorneys told him that the law required citizenship, nothing else. So for the first time, women were enlisted in the Navy and the Marine Corps. Most of Congress was so offended, that they changed the law to add the word “male”. They created the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, which allowed women to serve—even in combat, but men did not have to salute them if they were outranked, nor did the WAACs have other military protection.

This was a classsic recruiting speech to join the fundamentalist Islamic terror group he headed. This egomaniacal, Islamic terrorist proclaimed hinself the Caliph of all Muslims and lead the Islamic State [ISIS or ISIL] and attacked and took over parts of Syria and Iraq until he and his organization beheaded Americans