LAND FULL of VIOLENCE:Gangs Spreading In The Military

BAGHDAD U.S. Army Sgt. Juwan Johnson got a hero's welcome while home on leave in June of 2004."Not only did I love my son-but my God-I liked the man he was becoming,"his mother,Stephanie Cockrell,remembers.But that trip home was the last time his family saw him alive.When Johnson died,he wasn't in a war zone,he was in Germany."He had finished his term in Iraq,"his mother said."I talked to him the day before his death.He said,'Mom,I'm in the process of discharging out.I'll be out in two weeks'."On July 3, 2005,Sgt. Johnson went to a park not far from his base in Germany to be initiated into the 'Gangster Disciples,' a notorious Chicago-based street gang.He was beaten by eight other soldiers in a "jump-in"-an initiation rite common to many gangs."My son never spoke of joining a gang," Cockrell told CBS News correspondent Thalia Assuras.Johnson died that night from his injuries. "I feel like I didn't prepare him enough to deal with this and I should have," his mother said. "But how would I have known there were gangs in the military?I could have had that talk with him."Evidence of gang culture and gang activity in the military is increasing so much an FBI report calls it "a threat to law enforcement and national security."The signs are chilling:Marines in gang attire on Paris Island;paratroopers flashing gang hand signs at a nightclub near Ft. Bragg;infantrymen showing-off gang tattoos at Ft. Hood."It's obvious that many of these people do not give up their gang affiliations,"said Hunter Glass,a retired police detective in Fayetteville, North Carolina,the home of Ft. Bragg and the 82nd Airborne.He monitors gang activity at the base and across the military....
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