The FBI’s 2007 report on gang membership in the military states that the military’s recruit screening process is ineffective, allows gang members/extremists to enter the military, and lists at least eight instances in the last three years in which gang members have obtained military weapons for their illegal enterprises.[22] “Gang Activity in the U.S. Armed Forces Increasing”, dated January 12, 2007, states that street gangs including the Gangster Disciples, Bloods, Crips, Black Disciples, Hells Angels, Latin Kings, The 18th Street Gang, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Mexican Mafia, Maravilla, Norteos, Sureos, Vice Lords, Black P. Stones, Tiny Rascal Gang, Asian Boyz gang, Friends Stand United, Armenian Power, Trinitario, Nuestra Familia, and Outlaws, criminal organizations including the American Mafia, the Chinese Tongs, the Chinese Triads, the Irish Mob, the Israeli mafia, the Japanese Yakuza, Los Zetas, and the Russian Mafia, and various white supremacist groups including the Ku Klux Klan have been documented on military installations both domestic and international, although recruiting gang members violates military regulations.[23]

The FBI believes that gang members may enlist in the military to escape their current environment or gang lifestyle. Some gang members may also enlist to receive weapons, combat, and convoy support training; to obtain access to weapons and explosives; or as an alternative to incarceration. Upon discharge, they may employ their military training against law enforcement officials and rival gang members. Such military training could ultimately result in more organized, sophisticated, and deadly gangs, as well as an increase in deadly assaults on law enforcement officers.[24]

A January 2007 article in the Chicago Sun-Times reports that gang members in the military are involved in the theft and sale of military weapons, ammunition, and equipment, including body armor. According to a conversation recorded by an undercover FBI agent, one U.S. soldier may have stolen military body armor with intentions to supply Chicago gangs with the stolen equipment.[25] The Sun-Times began investigating the gang activity in the military after receiving photos of gang graffiti showing up in Iraq. A 2006 Sun-Times article reports that gangs encourage members to enter the military to learn urban warfare techniques to teach other gang members.[26]

In 2006, Scott Barfield, a Defense Department investigator, said there is an online network of gangs and extremists, and that: “They’re communicating with each other about weapons, about recruiting, about keeping their identities secret, about organizing within the military.”[27]

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