The Pentagon said earlier this year that it would try to recruit more Hispanics, who are under-represented, based on their overall numbers in the country. Sounds like a fair plan, right? Not to a group of antiwar activists in Los Angeles. The group—Latinos for Peace—announced on Monday the start of a national campaign to keep military recruiters out of high schools. The group’s goal: “to keep our children from being cannon fodder.”
The B-52H Stratofortress that crashed at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on June 15 was helping test a new advanced radar that is key to a sweeping modernization of the six-decade old bomber.