Comments on One Guardsman's Spiel: Recruiters Under Fire Home Edition

I spend a lot of time visiting my recruiters - hel...

2007-06-17T08:22:00.000-07:00

I spend a lot of time visiting my recruiters - helps keep my balance here in Moonbat Hollow. I've heard all the evils that recruiters do from the folks around here and I always ask them if they've ever talked to a recruiter. 9 out of 10 say "no, but I read..." *sigh
When my daughter told me she wanted to enlist (she was just starting her senior year in high school), I got online and looked up everything I could find on the Army. I found and printed out the contract she would be signing. I found an article on what Basic Training entailed. I found out about AIT.
When we found out she would be going to Basic at Ft Leonard Wood, I looked at their website and found the schedule for Basic. I talked to her recruiter about deployment. He said she could go over to Iraq or not. He didn't know.
Now if this technically challenged, middle aged women sitting in her kitchen in front of her computer can find out all this info, I have a hard time with people who say they didn't know. But I have also found that people do more research on the options on a new car then on the options for their future.
I got so tired of hearing the "I didn't know" that I created a Parent's Packet of all the info I had found for the recruiters to hand out at their meetings with parents and potential recruits.

This makes my blood boil. I am so sick of spoiled...

2007-06-13T01:10:00.000-07:00

This makes my blood boil. I am so sick of spoiled, whiny boys I could scream. We have made our children so soft and irresponsible for their actions and decisions and then we are expected to feel sorry for them when they can't handle their own lives.

Those AWOL figures are SO small in proportion to the size of the military that it almost isn't worth a mention.

OK - I'm ranting, but I would rather see newsprint used to extoll the virtues of all of those great men and women from Minnesota who have been extended in Iraq.

Thanks for your article. I was a recruiter during ...

2007-06-09T00:22:00.000-07:00

Thanks for your article. I was a recruiter during Vietnam; seems like little has changed!