Anticipating protest, Seattle recruiters to close
Saturday, May 19th
Army Times

Recruiters in metropolitan Seattle plan to close up
shop Saturday in anticipation of a protest march bound
for their station.

The rare closing on a Saturday will come a day after
the nationwide stand-down ordered by Army Recruiting
Command in response to accusations that recruiters
cheated in order to enlist otherwise ineligible
individuals into the Army.

Counter-recruitment organizations across the country,
including Youth Against War and Racism [in Seattle],
have made the call for actions on May 20-21 to say
"one day is not enough", a flier promoting the
protest reads.

Sgt. 1st Class Jeffery Due said recruiting efforts
will likely be ongoing elsewhere in the city Saturday
but not at the office. And this is not the first time
protestors in Seattle have disrupted recruiting
efforts.

In January, Due and Sgt. 1st Class Douglas Washington
were bombarded with water bottles and other objects
hurled by protestors with Students Against War Group.
The soldiers had to be escorted off the campus of
Seattle Central Community College.

A college spokesman told Army Times on Jan. 26 that
the college president was demanding an apology from
the student group. But the only time the recruiters
heard from the group was when they showed upon local
television saying that they weren?t sorry.

On Feb. 2, the college president, Mildred Ollee, sent
a letter to the student group saying she had reviewed
the incident and no longer required an apology,
according to Lorna Sutton, a college spokeswoman.

Apparently, the belief is that the actions that
should be apologized for were not committed by our
students, Sutton told Army Times May 19, explaining
that the public campus is often used by Seattle
residents and students from other institutions to hold
demonstrations.

Due recalled after the incident that he saw
individuals he knew to be students throwing items and
tearing apart his recruiting materials.

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