one of them tried to corner me into agreeing to let him come pick me up and talk in person. probably because he felt it would make me more compliant if alone with him. like a child predator.
I see, I always assumed it was either people giving their info themselves or others did to prank you. I guess it makes sense for a country who loves perpetual war.
Yeah, but if you go to a good high school they send recruiters who may tell you to commission instead of only to enlist
And no they don’t take “ineligible” for an answer. I didn’t want to die for oil, but even if I did they wouldn’t let me, but they also wouldn’t leave me alone.
I hear one can take the ASFAB, book the follow-up interviews, etc., but drop the mic on the pre-boot questionnaire that tries to suss out your “conscientious objector” leanings and never have to worry about another spam call/email (barring a draft). Or, so I hear. It’s been decades, now. 😜🤌🏼
did you take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery? One day “off” of classes in exchange for taking the military test. In exchange, you give the military your contact information yourself.
i did not take the test. i got way fewer recruitment letters and calls than my friends.
Nope I did not take it nor was I involved in anything like ROTC either.
Calls started being sent to our landline and my parents cellphones which were listed with the high school. After going to university is when they began coming to my cell phone.
family tradition is one. You can potentially start as an officer is another. They tried to recruit me to start as a captain given my prior vocational training.
I hated the recruitment texts and calls. The high school and university apparently just give your information to recruiters.
Wait, this a real thing? That’s so… American I guess.
one of them tried to corner me into agreeing to let him come pick me up and talk in person. probably because he felt it would make me more compliant if alone with him. like a child predator.
Yep. It’s actually the whole reason we have phy ed.
Basically if you get federal funds, you have to do what the federal says.
I see, I always assumed it was either people giving their info themselves or others did to prank you. I guess it makes sense for a country who loves perpetual war.
The “country” doesn’t, the pedo class does.
Yeah, but if you go to a good high school they send recruiters who may tell you to commission instead of only to enlist
And no they don’t take “ineligible” for an answer. I didn’t want to die for oil, but even if I did they wouldn’t let me, but they also wouldn’t leave me alone.
I hear one can take the ASFAB, book the follow-up interviews, etc., but drop the mic on the pre-boot questionnaire that tries to suss out your “conscientious objector” leanings and never have to worry about another spam call/email (barring a draft). Or, so I hear. It’s been decades, now. 😜🤌🏼
did you take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery? One day “off” of classes in exchange for taking the military test. In exchange, you give the military your contact information yourself.
i did not take the test. i got way fewer recruitment letters and calls than my friends.
Nope I did not take it nor was I involved in anything like ROTC either.
Calls started being sent to our landline and my parents cellphones which were listed with the high school. After going to university is when they began coming to my cell phone.
It would be really funny if they did it based on grades
You mean high grade is more recruiters… right?
Why would people with job prospects join the army?
family tradition is one. You can potentially start as an officer is another. They tried to recruit me to start as a captain given my prior vocational training.
I did not know that. Interesting, I guess my own feelings on it didn’t let me consider that