Solder-Boy
03-11-2007, 07:30 PM
Now I will start off by saying that I am not yet in the ARMY. I leave for MEPS the last week of this month, then I enslit for Active Duty.
But I have been having some serious problems with the recruiters I have come across.
I come from a very strong military background, including recruiters.
I am now on my third recruiter in the last 3 months. My first recruiter was a civilian contractor, who served time in Korea, and was retired. Great guy, really reminded me alot of my father befor he passed. Well I get a call one day, from a woman introducing her self, explaining how my previous recruiter was let go, pretty much over night. Well, I get to thinking....I'm going to go Infantry, which is a field that they don't even let women in, so how can she answer my questions? So I switched recruiters. Well the first time I go to meet my third recruiter, the first thing he says is if I like to drink and party, i will love the army. He starts telling me about all of his druken nights in germany when he was just a young soldier. I will admit, I nearly walked out of his office once he started talking. I am joining the ARMY to be a soldier. I am NOT joining the ARMY so I can go get drunk and party, and sleep with foreign women. May be apealing to some, but not my type of thing.
My problem with this whole situation, it seems like this guy is telling people that if they love to party and drink then come on in, the ARMY is just for you. I know that is NOT the case. I was completly apauld by him, and i lost most of the respect I had for him. The army is not a place to party and get laid. Now I may be completly out of hand with every last word I have said. But i am really bothered by todays recruiters. I know the recruiters in my family would never misrepresented the ARMY in this manner.
But I have been having some serious problems with the recruiters I have come across.
I come from a very strong military background, including recruiters.
I am now on my third recruiter in the last 3 months. My first recruiter was a civilian contractor, who served time in Korea, and was retired. Great guy, really reminded me alot of my father befor he passed. Well I get a call one day, from a woman introducing her self, explaining how my previous recruiter was let go, pretty much over night. Well, I get to thinking....I'm going to go Infantry, which is a field that they don't even let women in, so how can she answer my questions? So I switched recruiters. Well the first time I go to meet my third recruiter, the first thing he says is if I like to drink and party, i will love the army. He starts telling me about all of his druken nights in germany when he was just a young soldier. I will admit, I nearly walked out of his office once he started talking. I am joining the ARMY to be a soldier. I am NOT joining the ARMY so I can go get drunk and party, and sleep with foreign women. May be apealing to some, but not my type of thing.
My problem with this whole situation, it seems like this guy is telling people that if they love to party and drink then come on in, the ARMY is just for you. I know that is NOT the case. I was completly apauld by him, and i lost most of the respect I had for him. The army is not a place to party and get laid. Now I may be completly out of hand with every last word I have said. But i am really bothered by todays recruiters. I know the recruiters in my family would never misrepresented the ARMY in this manner.