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Through participant observation and in-depth interviews, this paper examines how militarism and masculinity are played out and bound together in the social space of a military-style charter school in California. The middle school was opened in 2003, maintains strict entrance requirements, and enrolls over 200 male and female cadets. Drawing on Connell's concept of hegemonic masculinity and Higate and Hopton's discussion of the reciprocal relationship between militarism and masculinity, this paper argues that the construction of a militaristic masculinity at the school is used as a vehicle to promote military identification and military recruitment among the students who are overwhelmingly working-class, youth of color. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]