US Trails Behind World In Aptitude Of Child Soldiers

From the theonion.com (a satire site):

After a shocking new study finds U.S. children lag far behind their international peers in subjects like rifle assembly and mine defusing.

“An average Sudanese child can field strip a Type-81 assault rifle by the time he is in seventh grade. An American child could not until he enlisted in the military”

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2 Responses to “US Trails Behind World In Aptitude Of Child Soldiers”

  1. DoubleTapperon 27 Jan 2008 at 12:23 pm link comment

    I’m not sure the video is entirely accurate. Take a look at http://doubletapper.blogspot.com/2008/01/he-dad-must-be-really-proud.html and see what I’m talking about.

  2. Steveon 27 Jan 2008 at 3:08 pm link comment

    haha, thats a great video. Not to mention that western children are taught accuracy, sometime that I do not think it taught to the children running around 30 year old AKs in Africa

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