FBI reports gang ‘infiltration’ of U.S. military | Campaign 2012 ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL)

FBI reports gang ‘infiltration’ of U.S. military | Campaign 2012  ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL): Hell’s Angels graffiti written on the back of a military vehicle in Iraq. / FBI

Gang members have been signing up with the United States Armed Forces, posing a “significant criminal threat” to law enforcement, according to a report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

“Gang infiltration of the military continues to pose a significant criminal threat, as members of at least 53 gangs have been identified on both domestic and international military installations,” the report says, resulting in American gang graffiti in Iraq, among other things.

Every branch of the military contains some gang members, the FBI reported, but most gang members join the Army, the Army Reserves, and the U.S. National Guard. And gang member enlistment doesn’t require a sinister intention. “Many street gang members join the military to escape the gang lifestyle,” says the FBI, while others join at the behest of a court “as an alternative to incarceration.”

But the military sometimes proves a bad...
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