[JohnE]

Military recruiters barred from initiating contact with possible recruits under 18...discuss.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/26/MNE6176LK9.DTL&nopu=1

 

[IH8Rice]

thats what you get for living in a stupid county name.


in small southern towns, these recruiters live off the kids. its basically a sales job getting kids to sign up. these kids see it as a way out of their no where life.

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

say you are a recruiter.... and you sign up a bunch of teenagers for war, they get shipped, drive over a mine and get all blown up in 100 pieces.

how do you deal with that morally, does the "personal responsability" notion counts there too... or does it get replaced with "buyers beware"...

 

[kidwoo]

Just doin my job bro.

I got those guys into the sickest video game evar!!

You've seen the commercials right? Come on down!

 

[jimmydean]

say you are a recruiter.... and you sign up a bunch of teenagers for war, they get shipped, drive over a mine and get all blown up in 100 pieces.

how do you deal with that morally, does the "personal responsability" notion counts there too... or does it get replaced with "buyers beware"...

Don't ask, don't tell.

Honestly, 99.8% of recruiters have ZERO care (or reason to care) what happens once you ship to basic.

Does Joe Salesman call you up 2 months after you bought the car to make sure you are satisfied with your purchase?

 

[Silver]

Does Joe Salesman call you up 2 months after you bought the car to make sure you are satisfied with your purchase?

Actually, yeah, mine did the last time I bought a car. He also wanted to remind me that the first two service appointments were free, and could be done at any Toyota dealer that was convienent for me.

 

[Silver]

Just doin my job bro.

I got those guys into the sickest video game evar!!

You've seen the commercials right? Come on down!

And they get to golf. If they get blown up, they are just golfing in heaven with Jesus.

Win/win, my friends...

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

Don't ask, don't tell.

Honestly, 99.8% of recruiters have ZERO care (or reason to care) what happens once you ship to basic.

Does Joe Salesman call you up 2 months after you bought the car to make sure you are satisfied with your purchase?

well, one thing is to be dissatisfied with a product and another is to die or be crippled as a result of a "purchase".

i think its very morally objectable to be a recruiter for the US army/navy/af, where you know its extraordinarily likely the kids you get to sign will go to batlle, die or in the best case scenario be told to kill, most likely in immoral and unjustified wars, at some point.

 

[IH8Rice]

Honestly, 99.8% of recruiters have ZERO care (or reason to care) what happens once you ship to basic.

Does Joe Salesman call you up 2 months after you bought the car to make sure you are satisfied with your purchase?

my friend just got back from Iraq last week and he's still in contact with his recruiter.

and when i got my new car, they called me too.

And they get to golf. If they get blown up, they are just golfing in heaven with Jesus.

Win/win, my friends...

that sounds like youre describing Hell to me buddy. i hope im not playing golf in heaven!

 

[manimal]

sounds like a novel idea..only in return for the recruiting restrictions, that town is no longer afforded the emergency assistance provided by the national guard.

 

[kidwoo]

sounds like a novel idea..only in return for the recruiting restrictions, that town is no longer afforded the emergency assistance provided by the national guard.

Which should work well for that texas place you said you wanted to move to if they secede.

 

[Westy]

They just need a do not call list like with telemarketers.

My mother called the cops on a Marine recruiter when he wouldn't take "no" or "get out of my house" for an answer when my brother was in high school.

 

[manimal]

Which should work well for that texas place you said you wanted to move to if they secede.

as if they need the NG considering texas has one of the highest military veterans per capita in the country.
http://www.grunt.com/scuttlebutt/corps-stories/vietnam/vetsperstate.asp

 

[kidwoo]

Those right wing nutjobs?

Heard something about them recently.

I picture a wonderfully organized militia with a clear chain of command, and no personal conflicts if the armed veteran citizenry of texas were to rise up.

 

[jimmydean]

i think its very morally objectable to be a recruiter for the US army/navy/af, where you know its extraordinarily likely the kids you get to sign will go to batlle, die or in the best case scenario be told to kill, most likely in immoral and unjustified wars, at some point.

WTF do you think you will be doing in the military? If you sign up in a time of war and are shocked that you are asked to go to war, then you have some serious issues with reality.

To be a recruiter, you give up your right to a soul.

 

[JohnE]

Its easy to pass judgement from half a continent away...