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REPLENISHING RECRUITS AT CAREER DAY, COAST GUARD ON PATROL TO INSTILL THE URGE TO JOIN IN TEEN-AGERS.(LOCAL)
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The Virginian Pilot
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May 12, 1999
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1999 The Virginian Pilot-Ledger Star. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: JEFFREY S. HAMPTON, STAFF WRITER
ELIZABETH CITY -- Visiting a Coast Guard career day Tuesday, 16-year-old Jeanine Jackson would not be convinced to enlist by the action-packed videos of open-water rescues or the slick pamphlets picturing a strike force team racing to the scene of an oil spill.
The Northeastern High School junior would never enlist like her father, mother, an uncle and two aunts did.
No, Jackson would never enlist, but she might sign up as an officer after college.
``Put me with the top dogs,'' Jackson said while she waited to be herded with the rest of her classmates through a C-130 airplane at the Coast Guard Air Station here.
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