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Jenny blogged me to it, but I also applaud the Third Circuit's decision to allow law schools to block military recruiting on campus. Its odd that I read this story last night and today I received two recruiting messages from the Army. First, I got an email from a Sergeant Charles R. Hood inviting me to join the Green Berets, where I'd get to enjoy fun activities like "SCUBA diving, Parachuting, and Foreign Languages," all under intense enemy fire, I'm sure. Sergeant Chuck even said "this opportunity is normally reserved for soldiers who have served for a period of 2 to 3 years, but at this time, it is available you with out any special prerequisites." Gosh, if they only threw in deconstruction and reception studies, I'd sign up right away. Chuck was nice enough to give me his phone number, (877) 524-0211, and when I get a chance tomorrow, I'll give him a ring and ask him to quit spamming me. I thought soldiers were of good moral character, so why are they spamming?

Then when I got home from school, I had a message on my machine, inviting me to be an army of one. They even had a little background music as the canned announcer extolled the virtues of dying in Iraq for a war no one believes in. Why don't the get rid of "don't ask; don't tell" before they whining about being unable to recruit enough troops?

UpdateI guess I should read bOINGbOING more frequently, cause they're already on the story. UT students have also been receiving phone spam, and apparently when one student called a recruiter to complain, the serviceman threatened the student with violence. Go Army!