Stuff your recruiter said to you

SGT Rodger Armstrong — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 23:15:17 -0400

Well when I have a funny story when I decided to enlist in the army. It started with me drunk deciding maybe I should join the army on my birthday. So next sober up went to the recruiter. Here a little idea what I looked like, I had long hair to my shoulder blades been out of school for about four years. So had test anxiety took the pratice test. Did horrible the SSG wanted to give me a chance and say screw it and drive up the 1 1/2 hours with no traffic to the Niagra falls meps. The SFC did see the potential in me like the SSG. In short and cleaned up version he said don't take the f'ing retard it won't be worth it. Well the SSG convinced and took me up got a 69 on the asvab (which I guess is ok, better the. The pratice) but looking back I wounded where I would be now if that SSG didn't give me that chance.

Well any yall have any crazy sh¡t your recruiter said to you in the being.

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 29 at 2014 11:23 PM

SSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 23:23:46 -0400

He said to me, "boy you are dense".

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 29 at 2014 11:38 PM

SSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 23:38:17 -0400

SGT Rodger Armstrong Actually my dad was an Air Force Recruiter before I enlisted. I wonder if this had anything to do with me enlisting? lol; One day during the Vietnam War a boy in school called my dad a baby killer. Hahaha. I popped him in the nose and the VP laughed and sent me back to class. Was actually proud of me.. lol

Response by SPC James Mcneil made Oct 30 at 2014 9:20 AM

SPC James Mcneil — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 09:20:18 -0400

I remember during one of our talks, the recruiter told me that during basic I would probably hate him. I asked why, and he responded this way. "Basic training is going to suck. It's supposed to suck. Just remember that it doesn't last forever."

I can honestly say I never hated my recruiter. He was completely honest with me from the word go.

Response by SSgt Boyd Herrst made Jan 21 at 2018 10:35 AM

SSgt Boyd Herrst — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 10:35:00 -0500

Must of been the political environment you lived.. it was obviously mixed opinions.. some patriotic and a percentage being anti or on the fence
about military action... where I lived it was mixed ideology..

Response by SPC Private RallyPoint Member made May 9 at 2018 8:23 AM

SPC Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 09 May 2018 08:23:37 -0400

My recruiter was awesome, but when I couldn't get the MOS I wanted (Military Police), I went with Carpentry and Masonry Specialist. My recruiter couldn't come back with me to talk to the Career Counselor, but afterwards, he told me I'd never deploy, engineers didn't have a mission overseas except on humanitarian missions that I'd have to volunteer for, I'd stay back at my duty station building new barracks and offices and whatnot. Yea, we are prohibited from building barracks and whatnot because we can't "guarantee" our work, and we don't have to volunteer for missions, we get ordered just like everybody else, and yes, we DO deploy on combat missions! I didn't get any promotion, bonus or anything else, either. And the 1+1 barracks with kitchenette they were advertising when I enlisted didn't actually happen for YEARS.