My 21 y/o neighbor gal just met w/ an Army Recruiter...

[elehhhhna]

If they accept her we will know they are desperate. This gal operates on the level of about a 12 y/o. She has some unidentified learning disbility which caused her to fail the HS TAKS test and she cannot keep a job. She's very trusting and gullible. Her BF just finished basic training & the recruiter promised her she'd end up on duty w/the BF (!).

This woman, with the mind of a child, would be a danger to any other soldiers she's assigned with.

We've warned her that mil recruiters are LIARS, but she says she can tell hers is "on the level".

[lonestarnot]

Poor thing.

[Horse with no Name]

1. Good luck with that

My brother is in North Carolina and his wife is stationed in San Diego.
They were promised they would get to be together too.

[elehhhhna]

4. Q: she has mild scoliosis. Will that keep her out? Hope so.

[Horse with no Name]

7. I doubt it

I'm sure that won't matter a bit when she gets blown to pieces.
I can't believe that they would consider someone mentally incapable.
Scratch that, I believe it.
It is appalling to me, however, I think I have reached my threshold. It's getting to the point that I am just relieved on the days that I DON'T hear something like this, instead of shocked when I do.

[Iris]

6. Yeah, I don't think they keep even married couples together.

I knew a couple who were officers and they were never in the same place. She finally got out.

[AllegroRondo]

13. Enlisted, yes. Officers, no.

Ive served in several units that had married couples in the same unit.

[FSogol]

8. C'mon, they are both in North America.

They're both in the Western hemisphere also. ;-)

[Horse with no Name]

14. Well to be fair

He has served two tours in Iraq. He re-upped last time he was over there because seriously, they were going to keep him anyway.
So, the deal he made (in writing) was that he became non-deployable.
His new assignment is in NC as a drill instructor(at this time, she was in boot camp and was told she would be stationed in Virginia, so he signed).
Now, they did tell him that if he would come back to San Diego and become deployable again, they could station them together.

How is that for compromise?:sarcasm:

[Iris]

22. omg. What a choice.

a horrible place to be

[HereSince1628]

2. When all else fails, join the army, and it seems for her nearly

everything else has failed. I have no doubt there is an IED clearing team needing help.

[benburch]

3. Those bastards.

I can respect all other soldiers. But I cannot respect a recruiter. They would drug and impress (shanghai) "recruits" if they could get away with it. They are snakes.

[atreides1]

10. Got news for you

Some of those recruiters have served a tour in Iraq, the question is if these recruiters lie then can we assume that other soldiers are as capable of lying?

[benburch]

17. They had to ask to be recruiters.

Self-selected snakes.

The honest ones won't do it.

[Richard Steele]

20. I don't think they ask to be recruiters.

If I recall the excellent Vanity Fair article correctly,
in which recruiters exposed the lies and deceptions
involved in recruiting,
they said that recruiting duty was a fairly mandatory
assignment in an officers 'career path'.

If you met your quotas, better assignments followed.
If you missed the quotas, your next assignment
was a dead-end post with no further chance of advancement.

[elehhhhna]

24. They are also punished for missing quota.

[babylonsister]

5. Sounds like Lindsey England.

What else will the military be able to dupe her about?:(

[elehhhhna]

9. That's exactly what Hubs said.

[Kindigger]

11. Odd recruiting commercial

I saw the other day. I didn't quite understand it. :shrug:

They showed a buncha military action shots, and then they showed a guy pumping gas into an SUV. The narrator said something like, "This could be you, or THIS could be you."

[Warpy]

18. HAHAHA! You can tell somebody over 60 designed THAT ad!

Kids used to have a job pumping gas for other people, checking their oil, cleaning their windshields. That job paid minimum wage when minimum wage meant something beside the ability to exploit illegal aliens.

Some old fart just didn't realize that his target audience has never been in a car that the driver didn't have to pump the gas into.

So the message is clear: Kid, join the Army and eat shit or stay home, live the good life, and drive a big shiny SUV!

[JohnnyRingo]

12. Recruiters have no say in where she serves.

I know you understand that, but she's falling for a recruiting trick that goes back to the Viet Nam era.
Later they came up with the "buddy system", but I think that was kind of a scam too. (not sure though) I think it only worked until after basic.

Poor girl, she'll grow up fast under Uncle Sam's tutelage.

[kiraboo]

15. Scoliosis might keep her out. But an acquaintance's son has

the same mental disabilities you describe and HE'S IN THE ARMY NOW! His mother encouraged him to join, to get him out of the house during the aftermath of her divorce. A sweet kid, a foolish kid. I am very worried about him.

[Bigmack]

16. I think the "old" military...

... could have been good for her. Lots of menial jobs, discipline, and basic hygiene helped a lot of kids with deficits.

The "new" military has privatized most of those jobs, and now people have jobs more related to combat.

Not a good situation for a person with limited mental skills.

[Vidar]

19. You're describing the makings of a "modern major general".

[DanCa]

21. No comment.

The less I say about this thread the better.

[elehhhhna]

23. why?

[misternormal]

25. Once I became an NCO...

I received at least two letters a month requesting that I volunteer to be a recruiter.

I adamantly refused