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I live at home and I've been going to college from home for about 18 months now.
During that time military recruiters have called at least once a month, sometimes twice, attempting to get me to sign me. They called my mother's house as well, where I do not live, and tried to convince her to get me to sign up. My mother is not a big supporter of the Iraq war, so she researched this no child left behind act where it has a proviso for this sort of thing. The recruiters are not truthful when they talk about the compensations for joining up, and leaving, and they straightout lie about the reenlistment shenangians the military is doing.
I brought up several issues whenever the recruitment officer would call, about forced reenlistment, national guard serving in a foreign country, under-funded military supplies for humvees, body armor etc and they just completely blew me off, and having read a confessional by one recruitment officer from conneticut, I think...they are forced to sign up 2 kids a month or they find themselves in Iraq.
It's pretty fucked. This is not the way to run a volunteer army.
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They're easy to deal with. Whatever they tell you, you ensure it's in writing when you sign it. While they cant be punished for what a recruit says they were told (many people have tried to grab the enlistment bonus and then demand to be let out afterwards cause they didnt get what they were promised (could be true but that's litterally a $50k question). They HAVE to give what the contract entitled because it is legally binding.
"Forced Reenlistment" is nothing new, it was in the contract that they signed. You can call me a dick, but I dont feel that sorry for them. I knew what I was signing when I joined the military because I actually read everything. I feel NO pity, only animosity for those that fled to Canada when they were stop-gapped.