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Originally Posted by willravel
Maybe you can call up your recruiter buddies and ask them how many explain the stop-loss program to their recruits.
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Haha, SLSM is so popular that they're currently making a "reality" film about it.
Story of my life.
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Originally Posted by willravel
The "it didn't happen to me thus it didn't happen" argument is the worst kind of fallacy.
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We had a LOT of time to sit on our dickbeaters in the US Army. Especially in basic training. You don't think we didn't spend endless hours talking about how we ended up in the meat grinder? Our lives before and how we got there? In a company of 300+ guys... I didn't hear a single story about a recruiter being deceitful.
Fallacy? Sure, I'm one man... but I was immersed in the system for four long years. You witness a lot of things. Recruitments. Reenlistment. All sorts of magic.
Are there statistics that quantify the bullshit present in the recruitment process? Maybe. Are they scientific enough to be any kind of proof? Definitely not.
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We did have some guy try to kill himself with his bootlaces. His gripe? His recruiter gave him exactly what he said he'd get and the guy couldn't handle it.