When they decided to sign up. Somebody from the same part of the country, roughly the same age. Somebody who might be thinking about a career in the armed forces the way this young soldier plainly did. Right . That u. S. Army recruiting strategy is how in june 2009 these two young Army Privates were standing together just outside an Army Recruiting station in little rock, arkansas. They were on a smoke break and standing outside together having a cigarette. One was 23 years old from conway, arkansas, 30 miles north of little rock which is where the Recruitment Center was. The other man was 18 years old, the man on the right. He was from arkansas as well. From just outside little rock in the town called jacksonville, arkansas. So, those two local men, these two native sons of arkansas, they were standing together outside the recruiting center in little rock when this man drove up in a pickup truck and shot at them. Opened fire with a. 22 caliber semiautomatic rifle. Police were able to
Its one that makes sense. These young soldiers can have sort of the closest thing that you can get to a peertopeer conversation with somebody else basically in a similar circumstance that they were in when they decided to sign up. Somebody from the same part of the country, roughly the same age. Somebody who might be thinking about a career in the armed forces the way this young soldier plainly did. Right . That u. S. Army recruiting strategy is how in june 2009 these two young Army Privates were standing together just outside an Army Recruiting station in little rock, arkansas. They were on a smoke break and standing outside together having a cigarette. One was 23 years old from conway, arkansas, 30 miles north of little rock which is where the Recruitment Center was. The other man was 18 years old, the man on the right. He was from arkansas as well. From just outside little rock in the town called jacksonville, arkansas. So, those two local men, these two native sons of arkansas, the
Conversation with somebody else basically in a similar circumstance that they were in when they decided to sign up. Somebody from the same part of the country, roughly the same age. Somebody who might be thinking about a career in the armed forces the way this young soldier plainly did. Right . That u. S. Army recruiting strategy is how in june 2009 these two young Army Privates were standing together just outside an Army Recruiting station in little rock, arkansas. They were on a smoke break and standing outside together having a cigarette. One was 23 years old from conway, arkansas, 30 miles north of little rock which is where the Recruitment Center was. The other man was 18 years old, the man on the right. He was from arkansas as well. From just outside little rock in the town called jacksonville, arkansas. So, those two local men, these two native sons of arkansas, they were standing together outside the recruiting center in little rock when this man drove up in a pickup truck and
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