11.   But quietly, inside police station house locker rooms and recruiting offices, a more troubling tale of the department is unfolding.

12.   Fliers displayed at Texas Workforce Commission offices in the Rio Grande Valley attracted several applicants to an IBP recruiting office in McAllen.

13.   He is a regular at Labor Ready, a nationwide temporary-help agency that opened a storefront recruiting office in Louisville last year near a public housing project.

14.   He normally works from an office in Stillwater, Okla., but about every other month reports to the Marine recruiting office in the federal building.

15.   He had passed a screening exam to be a military pilot several months earlier at a recruiting office near the Yale campus.

16.   He walked around downtown, to the police and fire stations and then the Navy recruiting office.

17.   I called the Marine Corps recruiting office to see if kids were enlisting to fight Serbs.

18.   I mean, I asked if I could join, and one of the flat-bellied studs in Army uniforms inside the recruiting office started giggling.

19.   I went over to the U.S. Army recruiting office on East Riverside Drive the other day to try to re-enlist.

20.   In one incident last year, a one-time employee at the federal building threatened to kill his former co-workers in the third floor Army recruiting office.