{"id":774954,"date":"2022-08-13T18:08:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T18:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=211383"},"modified":"2022-08-13T18:08:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T18:08:21","slug":"inside-lockheed-martins-sweeping-recruitment-on-college-campuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/08\/13\/inside-lockheed-martins-sweeping-recruitment-on-college-campuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Lockheed Martin\u2019s Sweeping Recruitment On College Campuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To a\u00a0casual observer, the Black\u00a0Hawk and Sikorsky S-76\u00a0helicopters may have seemed incongruous landing next to the student union on the University of Connecticut\u2019s pastoral green campus, but this particular Thursday in September\u00a02018\u00a0was Lockheed Martin Day, and the aircraft were the main\u00a0attraction.<\/p>\n<p>A small group of students stood nearby, signs in hand, protesting Lockheed\u2019s presence and informing others about a\u00a0recent massacre.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks earlier,\u00a040\u00a0children had been\u00a0killed\u00a0when a\u00a0Saudi-led coalition air strike dropped a\u00a0500-pound bomb on a\u00a0school bus in northern Yemen. A\u00a0CNN investigation found that Lockheed\u2009\u2014\u2009the world\u2019s largest weapons manufacturer\u2009\u2014\u2009had\u00a0sold the precision-guided munition\u00a0to Saudi Arabia a\u00a0year prior in a $110\u00a0billion arms deal brokered under former President Donald\u00a0Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/inside-lockheed-martins-sweeping-recruitment-on-college-campuses\/\">Inside Lockheed Martin\u2019s Sweeping Recruitment On College Campuses<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/inside-lockheed-martins-sweeping-recruitment-on-college-campuses\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To a\u00a0casual observer, the Black\u00a0Hawk and Sikorsky S-76\u00a0helicopters may have seemed incongruous landing next to the student union on the University of Connecticut\u2019s pastoral green campus, but this particular Thursday in September\u00a02018\u00a0was Lockheed Marti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5722,429,1801,7421,7756],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774955,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774954\/revisions\/774955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}