http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/4/11/125717/705
Good that the recruiters are training the kids to be Very Afraid...
Good that the recruiters are training the kids to be Very Afraid...
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Wow, this is scary - what happens when recruiters really get desparate?
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Yep. Those recruiters are nasty. I swear, that one recruiter called by like five times. He liked to focus on college students who had undecided majors, and I was one of them. Eventually, I told him that I was studying physics and astronomy to get him to leave me alone. It worked, and he hung up pretty fast after that and hasn't called me since. Interestingly enough though, now I actually am looking at doing a physics degree.
Anyway, my best advice to anyone who gets recruiters bothering them is to tell them that you're going into something like medical school, law school, or something that has to do with science. If you tell them that you're going into fields like music, art, or english, or if you tell them you are undecided, they won't leave you alone.
What I really hate is those army/navy commercials that make the military out to be actually fun. To quote one:
"because rocket science is more fun when you actually have rockets!"
It's kind of sickening.
Anyway, my best advice to anyone who gets recruiters bothering them is to tell them that you're going into something like medical school, law school, or something that has to do with science. If you tell them that you're going into fields like music, art, or english, or if you tell them you are undecided, they won't leave you alone.
What I really hate is those army/navy commercials that make the military out to be actually fun. To quote one:
"because rocket science is more fun when you actually have rockets!"
It's kind of sickening.
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neverforsaken
Proud American now and always
i thought about being in the military for a while. recruiters are pretty diligent, but i never heard of them doing that. and i am certain that it is an isolated incident. if i joined i would have either been in the militiary intel field or with artillary. it is a very good way to get through college. everyone i knew who went into the military for college said it was great.
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Yeah, there was already a thread in NC&E.
That one always cracked me up.
I remember one Navy commercial where the two guys are talking about their car, and one says "I've got 300hp in my engine." And the other guy says "Yeah? My brother runs something more powerful." "Yeah? What is it?" "Nuclear." "Huh?" *cut to long shot of nuclear sub skimming the surface, and brother working on nuclear reactor in boat.
That one always cracked me up.
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Ninja Turtles
Secrecy and Accountability Cannot Co-Exist
LOL, that stuff has always been funny. I don't understand advertising, it's never made me want to join anything.xMinionX said:
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Only in the land of the free!
Lucky the girl got away; immagine her being all she can be, doing lapdances in Guantanamo! I'm sure her parents wouldn't like that! But hey, small price to pay for callege tuition, no? Strut your stuff for your country, and get your tuition paid for!
Lucky the girl got away; immagine her being all she can be, doing lapdances in Guantanamo! I'm sure her parents wouldn't like that! But hey, small price to pay for callege tuition, no? Strut your stuff for your country, and get your tuition paid for!
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MKalashnikov
No longer a member of CF. As per Romans 12:9
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/4/11/125717/705
Good that the recruiters are training the kids to be Very Afraid...
The story has been throughly debunked.
It's a bunch of paranoid, delusional and absurd lies made up by a leftist teenager on a leftist blog.
Speaking from the PERSONAL EXPERIENCE of one who served as a "Hometown Recruiter" under ARAP. I can tell you that recruiters do not behave in this matter.
What's more, this delusional teenager went on to claim that a Congressman went IN PERSON to the recruiting station after this alleged incident and yelled at the "head recruiter."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/4/12/19389/7683
It's absurd.
And if anyone believes the garbage being spewed then we are in more trouble than i thought.
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dittomonkey911 said:
In the link you posted there was not a shred of anything to suggest the story was "thoroughly debunked."
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chalice_thunder said:
He's referring to the other thread on it in CF.
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Wait a second, I can't find the thread. Did it get trashed?
Anywho, I wouldn't go so far as to say the story was "thoroughly debunked." Discredited somewhat, perhaps, but no evidence was presented other than "I was a recruiter and this didn't happen with me" and "that's unlikely." The first point was balancing someone else saying "I worked with recruiters, and some of this rang true to me."
The story seems unlikely, but as someone else pointed out in the original thread, teenagers are prone to exaggeration. It may have happened, but not as badly as this teen would have you believe.
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AirPo said:
No, the other CF thread on this topic. The links being posted above are links to the DailyKOs.
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Ninja Turtles
Secrecy and Accountability Cannot Co-Exist
The story was never debunked, there was just one poster with ad hominem attacks on the news source.dittomonkey911 said:
Saying the site is leftist and horrible isn't debunking.
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