03-12-2007, 09:59 AM
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It's all good. Teenagers playing paintball is a new recruiting ground.
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Paintball Passions/Recruiters seek soldiers on a hot sport's battlefields.
Sgt. Cory Elder smiled as he surveyed the field of battle.
There were soldiers everywhere—300 camouflaged combatants gripping machine guns and barking into walkie-talkies.
There were smoke grenades. There were Humvees. There was even an airplane.
But despite all the accoutrements, this was hardly Fallujah, and these troops—in Coram, N.Y., last Sunday to play a paintball game called Behind Enemy Lines—were only weekend warriors.
For now, that is. Hoping to convert today's wanna-bes into tomorrow's cadets, Elder, an Army recruiter, had stocked an "Army of One" tent with key chains, coffee mugs, footballs, baseball caps, T shirts and customized dog tags.
Soon, a bunch of teenage boys were grasping for the prizes—and giving recruiters their names, numbers and e-mails in return.
"This is our target audience," says Elder. "It's a perfect match."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17552884/site/newsweek/
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