I hated the recruitment texts and calls. The high school and university apparently just give your information to recruiters.
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Wait, this a real thing? That's so... American I guess.
Yeah, but if you go to a good high school they send recruiters who may tell you to commission instead of only to enlist
And no they don't take "ineligible" for an answer. I didn't want to die for oil, but even if I did they wouldn't let me, but they also wouldn't leave me alone.
I hear one can take the ASFAB, book the follow-up interviews, etc., but drop the mic on the pre-boot questionnaire that tries to suss out your "conscientious objector" leanings and never have to worry about another spam call/email (barring a draft). Or, so I hear. It's been decades, now. 😜🤌🏼
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did you take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery? One day "off" of classes in exchange for taking the military test. In exchange, you give the military your contact information yourself.
i did not take the test. i got way fewer recruitment letters and calls than my friends.
Nope I did not take it nor was I involved in anything like ROTC either.
Calls started being sent to our landline and my parents cellphones which were listed with the high school. After going to university is when they began coming to my cell phone.
"so i understand you take men in your military. did you have to be born that way?" got them to stop calling me altogether back during DADT.
I told them I was a conscientious objector in 2001 and never heard from any of them ever again.
when "I am not going to join, please stop calling" doesn't work, you have to know the actual magic words.
unfortunately I fear that gets you put on a list you dont want to be on
We're already on all the lists.
Oldest child was contacted via text by a recruiter. We told them to waste their time. Say "yes, I'll talk to you about it if you treat ME to a meal at [local restaurant]." (emphasis mine)
The recruiter ghosted them after that.
We had an army recruiter come talk to our history class in high school (this was in the '80s). After the guy's talk he said "any questions"?" My friend Rob said "yeah, I have a question: does napalm still stick to kids?"
Ironically that's a good recruiter. Anything that looks like fraternizing with potential recruits outside official activities is a huge no no.
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"I mean, I wanna—I wanna kill. Kill. I wan—I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill. Kill. Kill! Kill!" And I started jumpin' up and down yelling, "Kill! Kill!" and he started jumpin' up and down with me and we was both jumpin' up and down yelling, "Kill! Kill!" And the sergeant came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, and said, "You're our boy." Didn't feel too good about it.
I'm pretty sure it's not, but this feels like something from Full Metal Jacket.
I bet b he’s good buddies with SSG Leaudrag.
Do military recruiters actually just cold call (well, text) you like that in the US?
Yeah, I got a call when I was sixteen or so several years ago. They strung me along for quite a while just acting like they knew me. I was trying to figure out how I knew them and finally they said they were a recruiter and I told them I wasn't interested. I wish I told him to fuck off, but that's not the kind of kind I was.
They even come to your highschool class during lesson time to talk with everyone about why military is awesome and you should totally join.
There was also a few month duration each year where army members would setup a table in your school cafetaria and give snacks for talking about military or taking surveys etc.
That's actually fucking absurd wow. I was in the Canadian Air Cadets as a kid and even then I didn't see that level of recruiting. Like even when doing Cadet basic training on an actual air base, it was always just learning drill, shooting, and about how planes worked. I've never in my life been asked or had it suggested to me that I join the military
Fun fact: the United States hasn't signed the international agreement banning child soldiers because the military allows 17-year-olds to enlist (although they don't actually start their service until they're 18).
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Yes. Before cell phones were common they called my parents land line asking for me.
Also like any ‘sales’ job metrics matter, so they’ll take a meeting with kids like this even if it doesn’t convert to a recruit in the end.
I actually wanted to join the military fresh out of high school but I was informed by my recruiter that they don't take autistic people
It's a loss to their logistics supply corps.
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When I was working retail, stocking shelves, one of those scumbags walked up to me and asked "so is this what you want to do for your life, are you happy here?"
Like what the fuck.
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"Are you saying I can take skulls and spill blood? If so, sign me up! I gotta make Daddy Khorne pleased."
The bar has been low for at least 30 years. Marine recruiter wouldn't leave me alone even after I started hitting on him.
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That reply alone should’ve been the end of the conversation 😭
in Russia, they agitate during their studies, promising a diploma) I can already see how such a person who has received a diploma in this way will work well in education.
at least the SSG still has his sense of humor
I assume everyone has heard the Arlo Guthrie thanksgiving song. "I wanna kill, kill, kill, kill!" "You're our boy."
I wonder what the response would be if you said something like: I'm already in the Navy.
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Our bestest ally and only democracy in the Middle East needs wall lickers to usher in their bizarre delusions.
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