What is your best recruiter story?

2015-02-12T18:12:16-05:00

So one day I was in my recruiters office to get scheduled for my ASVAB and I overheard this kid tell one of the Marines, "So yeah I was playing Call of Duty and it motivated me to do 'black ops' in the Marine Corps! I can also run really fast for a long time." Seeing that recruiters face was probably the funniest thing ever! My question is: What's the funniest thing you've heard from a recruiters office?

Response by CW5 Sam R. Baker made Feb 12 at 2015 6:17 PM

2015-02-12T18:17:59-05:00

I have to say it was when the recruit in the office next to me was asked if he had ever smoked Marijuana and the recruit replied everyday for 5 years and the recruiter said out loud as he filled out the application, "experimented once"

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 12 at 2015 6:23 PM

2015-02-12T18:23:36-05:00

Heard a guy in my recruiters office ask one of the other recruiter....."so, my drug convictions wont keep me out will they?" Me and my recruiter snickered at the same time

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 19 at 2015 1:22 AM

2015-02-19T01:22:49-05:00

Meet Rosscoe the raccoon

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 19 at 2015 6:59 PM

2015-07-19T18:59:28-04:00

I came from a rough neighborhood and as I was getting out through the military I wanted as many of my friends to come as possible. Eventually my recruiter stopped taking my referrals because they all either had felonies or couldn't pass a drug test. haha. I think about five in the last 3 years actually got through the system and security checks.

Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 19 at 2015 7:20 PM

2015-07-19T19:20:33-04:00

For a while I ran a Paintball Team for the NCNG. I was doing an event in Spring Lake, NC and we had a bunch of prospects. So a group of young junior Marines show up. All of them early high school age. I didn't have an issue with this at all. They could play too. So one of them asks me about the National Guard and I answer a few questions and he says "Well, the Marines are better!" I asked him if he heard about the Marines putting free paintball event. He got all excited and said he didn't know about it. I told him that they don't have one and if he wanted to play with the National Guard he needs to tone it down and show some respect to actual service members. He did and we all had a good time. The last thing I wanted to deal with was a 14 year old trying to down talk the National Guard at a National Guard hosted event.

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 20 at 2015 12:22 AM

2015-07-20T00:22:34-04:00

I had an Army recruiter ask if I wanted to go Navy. I said no. He continued to tell me why I should not go into the Navy (which I never wanted to go into....) and threw a piece of paper down on the floor and said you are off duty, you are on the ship (piece of paper) in the middle of the ocean (the floor), where are you going? Oh ok....

Response by TSgt Melissa Post made Aug 4 at 2016 3:50 AM

2016-08-04T03:50:25-04:00

I think my favorite story from when I was a recruit was when my recruiter told my stepdad "She can change her mind all the way up to the point when she steps on that bus." My stepdad looked him straight in the eye and said "No she can't!" My recruiter looked at me and I replied "No, I can't." His expression was a little of shock mixed with "not-gonna-ask".

Response by Kiersten Childs made May 25 at 2019 9:45 AM

2019-05-25T09:45:21-04:00

I was in the waiting area of my Navy recruiter the other day and this girl was telling my recruiter that she was afraid of water and heights. She also needed to be stationed somewhere where it wasn't too hot out because she was sensitive to heat. My recruiter then stood up and said "Why don't you go visit the Coast Guard recruiter. I don't think you are a good fit for the Navy." I'm not sure why he suggested the CG recruiter but it was funny and I could tell he just wanted her out of his office.