I've had my first experience with an army recruiter. I'm on my high school's LA marathon team, so I'm walking to the track after school and an army recruiter spots my friend and I. Right away he starts asking us how many miles we're running today. I tell him seven. He says if we can run seven miles, we can join the army. I tell him no thanks and keep walking. The creep follows us and tells us, " I see by your ID's that you're juniors...you can get a $40,000 bonus if you sign up now." I had started to get annoyed by then so I just tell him that four years of murdering isn't worth the money. He looks surprised, finally gives up and walks away.
$40,000 Bonus
Did you ever take a look at the high school recruiting handbook published by the military for their traders in human flesh? It's friggin creepy. They have it down to a science. They even talk about how often to bring the faculty coffee and donuts to stay on their good side... The book talks about building relationships with "student influencers" (athletes and class president, etc) who they don't expect to actually join up - but do expect them to use their influence on the lower social strata to cast military service in a good light.
http://www.nodraftnoway.org/public_html/USAREC%20Pam%20350-13%2020040901...
And there ain't too much you can do about since No Child Left Behind made it federal law that any school getting federal funds needs to give out names, phone numbers and addresses to these vultures... Thank your Uncle W.
I predict one of the last things Bush
does before abdicating the throne will
be to re-enstate the draft, I am just
glad that i am gay and old and have a metal
spine, because they will not come after me.
i remember when i was in college being in a Best Buy store looking at CDs and a guy in army/marine gear walks up and asks "you wanna be in the army/marines?" and i say "no" and he looks me up and down and says PFFT! and walks away.
another time when i was in college, when i took the city bus to and from, i had an army recruiter talk to me at a park and ride. he thought i was in high school and i say i'm in college, and he says "oh, that's good, what are you majoring in?" and i say "computer graphic arts" and he says "oh no way, like cartoons and shit!" and got excited, haha.
They were like vultures at my high school.
Swooping down to snack on the entrails of the least suspecting and slowest moving.
Best parody of military recruiters was done, of course, by The Simpsons.
Check it out right here.
"Are you guys hittin' on us?"
The people I've talked to that have had the pleasure of speaking to an army recruiter always feel as if they're getting hit on.
http://www.nodraftnoway.org/public_html/USAREC%20Pam%20350-13%2020040901...
And there ain't too much you can do about since No Child Left Behind made it federal law that any school getting federal funds needs to give out names, phone numbers and addresses to these vultures... Thank your Uncle W.
Yeah, NCLB is really doing an amazing job. You know, my districts's dropout rate is only 30% and skyrocketing! Thanks, Mr. Dubya!
I remember the army and marines recruiting at my school. Once, in the lunch room, they had a guy walking around in a huge inflatable cartoon recruiter costume, named Robby Recruiter. It was obscene. First, I didn't know whether to laugh or get pissed off, then one of the Ukranian kids stabbed the inflatable dude in the ass with a pencil, causing him to partially deflate and list bizarrely to one side. Then it was time to laugh. Then, last year at college, there was a protest over military recruiters preying on college students. I was there, it ranged from boring to infuriating. The campus Young Republicans were there in full force for their counter-protest, they had come prepared, with signs reading "Our Troops = freedom fighters." Then, a campus security officer went to our side and yanked a sign out of someone's hand. When the kid tried to get his sign back, the security guy maced him, some other students started to raise a fuss, and a police brawl ensued. The kid who got maced got suspended, and for the next week the Young Republicans gloated about the suspension, lying that he had assaulted an officer of the law, and that the anti-recruiter demonstrators had rioted. I knew several people on the pro-recruiter side, and subsequently lost all respect for them.
KPunk wouldn't've supported you anyway.
P.S. "Spots my friend and me." You and your friend were the objects of his spotting.