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Offline Sikboy

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« Reply #15 on: June 30, 2005, 07:50:31 PM »
My buddies and I used to take the ASVAB so that we coudl get ouf of class for a while. We weren't really paying much attention to the whole process, we just sat down filled out our tests and went about our business.

So of course in our Senior years we were hammered by the Recruiters. I mean we had a pulse and we did well on the test (not that it's anything to brag about). I was getting tired of trying to get rid of the Navy recruiter, so I just started to make appointments with him. Then I just wouldn't show up. Finally he stopped calling after about 5 missed appointments.

So it was a bit ironic when I decided that I couldn't deal with the Jr. College and had to go back to the Navy with my hat in my hand lol. He was all smiles with one of those: "I told you you'd be back" looks on his face.

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« Reply #16 on: June 30, 2005, 10:07:56 PM »
Whose kids do we actually want the DoD to want?
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Offline GRUNHERZ

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« Reply #17 on: June 30, 2005, 10:18:57 PM »
What's all this recruiting stuff?

I have it from a very good source that parents are the ones responsible for sending their kids off to the war. Or in the case of some parents, not sending their kids to war.

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So why this fuss about recruiters? What do they do?
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« Reply #18 on: June 30, 2005, 11:00:18 PM »
LMAO!  I love that scene.

I heard somewhere that one of the senators replied something along the lines of, "It's not my decision whether or not my son joins the army."

Of course he didn't show it.
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Offline Hangtime

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« Reply #19 on: June 30, 2005, 11:16:16 PM »
Just park a HumVee out front of the school; put a sign on it:

"Drivers Wanted"

Ditto with an Abrams and a few Apachees.
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« Reply #20 on: June 30, 2005, 11:57:23 PM »
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Mean ol' defense department!  I bet you think we're better off without them, don't you? :mad:


I work for them. :p
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« Reply #21 on: July 01, 2005, 12:17:26 AM »
I look at it from another perspective. Why are the state education programs so underfunded or mismanaged that they require federal subsistance? Why is the federal government funding this?
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« Reply #22 on: July 01, 2005, 01:47:16 AM »
My social studies teacher told me when guys are 18 they are or were required to register for the service or something and if  you didn't it was a felony or something.  If they have this recruiting list why would guys even need to do that?
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« Reply #23 on: July 01, 2005, 05:49:12 AM »
Heres an intresting tidbit concerning selective service.

President Jimmy Carter reinstated the Selective Service registration requirement in the summer of 1980.

The recruiters are always at my sons high school, giving out posters and stuff to start conversations with the kids.
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Offline Monk

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« Reply #24 on: July 01, 2005, 06:21:36 AM »
Oh my god, that's shocking.
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Offline rshubert

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« Reply #25 on: July 01, 2005, 06:26:56 AM »
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Whats with all this recruiter stuff?  I thought the draft was back on.


Please, oh please tell me you were kidding.  You were kidding, right?  Nobody is that clueless.
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Offline eagl

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« Reply #26 on: July 01, 2005, 06:28:21 AM »
What's wrong with recruiters?  Military service is a very honorable profession, and it opens up tons of opportunities to those who may not have many choices when they finish school.

If a kid has better things to do than join the military when they finish school, they'll probably choose to do that.  But if the military is a better choice, then why not join up?  The initial committment is pretty short anyhow, and the murder/rape/death percentages in the military are on average comparable to life in state colleges, so...  What's the problem?
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Offline JB66

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« Reply #27 on: July 01, 2005, 07:17:59 AM »
Just an FYI...I have no problem with the recruiters going to the schools.
Military service is very Honorable, and the recruits have an opportunity to be exposed to skills which they can use for the rest of their lives.
ie...I have a friend who is a Nuclear reactor technition(sp)...WHich he learned while in the Navy
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« Reply #28 on: July 01, 2005, 08:06:09 AM »
OMG the horror!!!!!!
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Offline ASTAC

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« Reply #29 on: July 01, 2005, 08:06:54 AM »
Kids that want to join will join wether their parents want them to or not. If a school has a JROTC then the recruiters at least for that service have every right to be there since ROTC is a federal program. Schools also get federal funding and belong to the local government. I feel that can allow a recruiter to be there. Some kids don't have much of a future to look forward to and the military is a good alternative to a minimum wage job for the rest of their lives. It's a honorable occupation. If there wasn't a war on, these complaints wouldn't exist. People can't expect the military to just recruit in the ghettos and low income areas..we need better recruits than that.

If you don't want your kids drafted..then this should be allowed to happen. To maintain an all volunteer military we must have agressive recruiters.
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