You know, I nearly joined the army national guard in my junior year of HS. I took the ASVAB and did really well on it and did all of the interviews, even got a written promise that I’d get the MOS I asked for.
Then my recruiter called me for an interview where he just flat out dropped the act and told me about all the worst parts of being in the army. I wanted to do small arms repair so I could get a foot in the door to get into military R&D, he told me it’d take a career of 30+ years to get there, but that could in no way be promised, because small arms repairmen don’t get promotions easily. He told me that I’d have to live on base, and because my chosen MOS was one that was in constant need, I’d likely not get much time off. Meaning all of my free time would’ve been for the army to decide what I did with it. If I wanted to take a week to visit some friends, it likely wouldn’t’ve been easy to get the leave, for instance.
Recruiters are parasites, who’ll lie straight to your face to get you to sign on, and only a very small amount of them have the heart to tell hope-filled impressionable teenagers exactly what military life is like.
You know, I nearly joined the army national guard in my junior year of HS. I took the ASVAB and did really well on it and did all of the interviews, even got a written promise that I’d get the MOS I asked for.
Then my recruiter called me for an interview where he just flat out dropped the act and told me about all the worst parts of being in the army. I wanted to do small arms repair so I could get a foot in the door to get into military R&D, he told me it’d take a career of 30+ years to get there, but that could in no way be promised, because small arms repairmen don’t get promotions easily. He told me that I’d have to live on base, and because my chosen MOS was one that was in constant need, I’d likely not get much time off. Meaning all of my free time would’ve been for the army to decide what I did with it. If I wanted to take a week to visit some friends, it likely wouldn’t’ve been easy to get the leave, for instance.
Recruiters are parasites, who’ll lie straight to your face to get you to sign on, and only a very small amount of them have the heart to tell hope-filled impressionable teenagers exactly what military life is like.