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01/12/2005:

"Targeting teens for troops"

ATLANTA - Sprawled beneath an olive-green camouflage net snapping like a bullwhip in cold, blustery winds, Senae Hobson, a petite 17-year-old, shivers in a T-shirt behind a .50-caliber machine gun, hardly able to straddle the huge weapon.

Smiling timidly, she listens as a burly veteran sergeant named Ray McCommons, 35, - warmly clad in an Army field jacket - tells her how to operate the gun. Nearby, other teenagers, baby-faced boys mostly, nervously await their turn, many flexing their bravado in sleeveless shirts.

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