Essay On How To Sign Out In The Army

This is also is persuading readers to make a stand for these children and join the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers. This would make readers join the movement to stop countries from using children as soldiers to fight in their conflicts/wars. Another quote from “Armed & Underage” is “He now lives with other government soldiers in a filthy house littered with cigarette boxes and smelly clothes. Awil doesn't know exactly how old he is, but his commander says he's around 12.” The quote is showing that children are being put in different nasty environments where there are cigarettes everywhere and they have to wear the same dirty and smelly clothes each day as they cannot get new ones because they cannot pay for them and shows that children are experiencing the true colors of war. This relates back to the claim that “Armed & Underage” creates a more persuasive argument about why children should not be enlisting into the military

For starters, most child soldiers are soldiers against their will. According to the article “Child Soldiers should be Prosecuted” the author states, “Children are often forced into fighting and have little choice over whether they enlist” (1). This gives the readers a clear explanation in how most of the soldiers are forced into the life they have. They barely have a voice on whether they enlist or not. In additions, another article titled “Armed & Underaged” the author, Jeffery Gettleman states that sometimes parents make the decision to send their child to war (8). This evidence further expands on the reason that in most cases, the children have little to no choice on whether they are sent to war, and sometimes because of their parents. Gettleman

While boys have been in wars for ages, the Civil War had a particularly large number of them. When one kid, Elishia Stockwell Signed his recruitment papers, he was lying about his age to be enlisted. In the North, the minimum enlistment age was 18 (soldiers) and 16 (musician). The South’s was 18 as well.

A child soldier is any person male or female ages eighteen and under, who is a member of an armed force or political group. The children are usually serving as soldiers from ages eight to eighteen. Thousands of children serve in different armed rebel groups around the world. There are more than 300 thousand child soldiers around the continent, fighting in South America, Africa, and even parts of Europe and Asia. Recruitment and utilization of children under fifteen is illicit.

According to Laurence Steinberg in his article “A 16-Year Old Is As Good As an 18-Year-Old or a 40-Year-Old At Voting,” he brings in an interesting topic about “cold cognition.” He explains that “cold cognition is the judgment of adolescents’ in situations that permit measured decision-making and consultation with others is just as mature as that of adults by 16.” Definitely, there are some of 16 year -olds who have the intellectual skills to represent themselves, but I believe most 16 year-olds are often naïve. They are not responsible enough to know the impact of their decisions that will not only affect them and their family, but the entire country. At the age of 16, you have way more important things to be doing with your valuable time.

The reason why people use children as soldiers is because they are relatively easy to manipulate. Since they are unaware about dangerous situations at this stage in their lives, they go into the military obliviously, not knowing what will happen to them. They are forced to do many jobs that can put themselves in great physical and/or psychological damage such as being scouts or decoys to draw the enemy’s fire, sacrificed as suicide bombers, used as front line combatants, and are also mine sweepers. Another reason why they are easily manipulated is because they are young and they do not know the value of money, therefore they are usually being paid less than they should be considering the deadly jobs they are put into. Although in most cases these

Some children volunteer themselves or have their family volunteer them because they feel that they will be better off living with the armed groups. They will receive food and water every day, they will feel secure and have a bed to sleep in knowing they are safer than they would be at home, they also volunteer from social pressures. In most cases, children are forcibly recruited, by either being abducted or having threats said to them, (commonly) about their families. Most children are convinced to join the armed groups if they are poor, have no family, no education or living near or at a combat zone, as they say they may as well join they ‘have no reason to live

Cooks explores the many ways underage boys were able to join the army, some as young as fourteen. Many when enlisting lied about their age and since a birth certificate was not necessary for recruitment age restrictions placed by the government were hard to enforce. Some boys were honest about their age and consequently were told to “run around the block, think over their age and come back again” (p. 189) resulting in the creation of a more appropriate age. If a young man was turned away at recruitment, they simply had to walk to the next town until they were accepted or show up at the same recruitment facility but a different day. If a boy was sent back from the war after other discovered their actual age, sometimes through letters from home,

Young people have a lot of life to live still. They need to experience a life of freedom and have a decision to want to join the military. Children need to had an education in order for a future, even being in the military. If you’re still a child why should you have to serve for 2 years or even serve at all. They shouldn’t have to experience that.

The time someone becomes an adult varies from state to state in the United States. The three ages of consent in the US are 16, 17, and 18. Some children that have been in war were those ages when they got “recruited” So that means they should face their crimes, right? Well they were forced into it anyway why should their age matter. Whether they’re 8 or 18 if they have an AK-47 against their head will most likely do whatever the person with the gun says.

A reason that child soldiers are recruited are that they are easily manipulated. At a young age, children’s minds are easier to persuade. Thier minds are not developed enough until they are 18 years of age.

An important phase that needs to be considered is the voluntary informed consent form which happens during the time of recruitment. Children are not independent

Children are often at an added disadvantage as combatants in relation to adults.”(“Child Soldiers:An Overview”) The children who are forced into war are not trained for the fight as an adult would be trained. That leads to them not knowing what they are doing at war or how they can fight at all. Adults in war are also in danger because they can be shot and killed or wounded, but children are more at risk since they have not had enough experience. The children who are forced into being at war are more likely to be hurt or killed since they are their to protect the adults or become soldiers when they are not ready to fight. The increasing use of child troops can damage the way a child lives the rest of their lives because they are wounded from their war experience or from the way they are treated.

Under the CRC, article 28, age fifteen was the only age that could be agreed upon for children to participate in armed conflict, therefore, that is the minimum age; however, the Optional Protocol convention stated that age fifteen was too low and decided that age eighteen should be the minimum for participation in armed conflict.

Military service is voluntary and open to male and female recruits ages 18–26. Enlistees sign on for a 9-year obligation for army and air force personnel and 7 years for naval personnel. Unlike the other military forces of the region, the