My proposal for military recruiting reforms.

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1. You should have to be 21 to sign up. If you are under 21 you need a parent or guardian to sign authorizing you to enlist.

2. Truth in recruiting. Recruiters must tell enlistees the truth. They should be held liable or criminally accountable for providing false information to enlistees.

3. An end to the stop-loss program. Unless this country is in a declared war--you know a declaration of war, like the Constitution says--there will be no more stop losses.

4. Local school districts should have the right to vote recruiters off of their campuses if the people in those communities vote to do so.

5. Repeal of the section of No Child Left Behind requiring schools to turn over student info to recruiters.

6. Recruitment of students on high school or college campuses should be by opt-in, not opt-out.

7. Military phone numbers should be included on the national Do-Not-Call-List.

8. Recruiting offices must be located in proportion to how many affluent and poor neighborhoods exist in each state.

9. No draft. End draft registration. If the military can't get enough warm bodies, then gee, maybe the people are trying to tell them something: DON'T START SO MANY WARS!