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Nwhenever I hear someone bitching about no job and 60K-120K in student debt I laugh in their face.
That's true too!
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Nwhenever I hear someone bitching about no job and 60K-120K in student debt I laugh in their face.
so who are you going to talk to at this local base? is there a base that is local for everyone in the country? does this base house all branches of the military that someone can talk to?
I was one of the screwed guys who had to sign up in 1980 as part of Jimmy Carter's Selective Service revival. Well, I had just lost my right to drink beer legally the year before, so I did some thinking. Well, not mature enough to drink beer with friends, but legal enough to become cannon fodder? No brainer, there. I refused to register, changed my driver's license address to a PO box and remained silent. Other friends did the same. The less .gov knows about your personal business, the better!The Air Force offered my sister a commission if she could get me to sign up. The Nuclear Navy did the same.
She did not live at home at the time... She was a live-in Nanny nearly an hours drive away, and NOT in the armed forces.
Did your daughter take the ASVAB test? I'd wager she did.
There are both enlisted and officer options to help with school/career. But she knows this already of course, and about all the options that were never mentioned whatsoever in high school.
I was one of the screwed guys who had to sign up in 1980 as part of Jimmy Carter's Selective Service revival. Well, I had just lost my right to drink beer legally the year before, so I did some thinking. Well, not mature enough to drink beer with friends, but legal enough to become cannon fodder? No brainer, there. I refused to register, changed my driver's license address to a PO box and remained silent. Other friends did the same. The less .gov knows about your personal business, the better!
Why is going door to door out of line... There is a lot of anti-military propaganda in the northeast, especially in schools, and from parents (see the OP for example).
Why do you feel it necessary to speak on behalf of your ADULT daughter?
.... I didn't like the used car salesman pitch (even I saw right through it) and that pretty much ended the conversations I had with those guys. ...
Where exactly did you see anti-military propaganda on my part?
He forgot to mention, he brought delicious MRE cookies! Soooo....No offense but you sound pretty paranoid. Whats your problem he was just inquiring into your daughters interest in joining, doing his job hes paid to do. You sound pretty anti-military if you ask me......
You come on here complaining about it like he violate your rights or something, from what I read he did nothing of the such.
No offense but you sound pretty paranoid. Whats your problem he was just inquiring into your daughters interest in joining, doing his job hes paid to do. You sound pretty anti-military if you ask me......
You come on here complaining about it like he violate your rights or something, from what I read he did nothing of the such.
Anti-military was perhaps the wrong term... But your post comes off as so defensive and so eager to show that the military is not for your daughter, period.
Mike
The recruiter is an agent of the government that barged into his home without permission. That right there would be enough to get me all riled up.
Yesterday I was in my home office on the 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] floor when the door bell rings. I start walking out to try and get the door but my wife was faster (she was on the first floor), so I just stopped outside my office to listen. A man asks for my oldest daughter (by name). My wife answers him “oh, she’s not home, she’s still in college”. He tells her something which I couldn't understand, and she continues to answer “she’ll be home later this week...”
At this point I feel my hair start sticking out, blood pressure going high, I tell my wife (not in English) “STOP providing information!!” as I start walking down the stairs. I reach the half point where I can see the door, my wife gives me this “what’s your problem” look, and I see an army sergeant (couldn’t tell which branch) stands outside and holding the storm door with one hand and a briefcase in the other. I ask him what does he want, he says they are checking on kids who graduated high school last year. I stopped him and told him she is not interested. He then proceeds and walks INTO the house and continues to talk “oh, that’s fine, we’re just checking to see where they are with their lives, what they are doing”.
Blood pressure keeps going up. I did NOT invite you to my house, so get the **** out!
I told him “We’re fine, thank you very much!” in a very stern and assertive tone. Seems like he got the message, he said thank you and left. My wife says he drove a car with a gov. plate.
After he left I asked my wife (kind’a pissed) “What the hell was that?? Why are you providing information to him? Who is he??”. She said “I don’t know, I guess I got confused”. She was probably intimidated by the uniform/authority.
I tell her “Do you know that if a police officer knocks on the door and starts asking question you have NO obligation to answer?”
She says “no, I didn’t know that”.
I went back to my office, took the BUST card that was in one of the recent threads (Thanks @MaverickNH) and told her to make sure she reads it A to Z.
I am still furious at what happened. Both at the chutzpa of this sergeant for coming into the house uninvited and at my wife's "free speech"
The branch of service that the "Army" Sergeant is in is the Army.
The recruiter is an agent of the government that barged into his home without permission. That right there would be enough to get me all riled up.
Bold assumption based on facts not in evidence, but this is NES so BOYCOTT!!!!!!!1!!!!
All I can go on is what the OP reported. Who said anything about boycott?
Yeah you should definitely screw this guy over and call his command because your wife was talking politely with him until you came downstairs and freaked out.
Mike
he couldn't see me (the door kind'a blocked his view), that's when he moved forward and stepped into the house.
Do you think that maybe, possibly, just perhaps, chatty Kathy wife gave this mysterious branchless Army sergeant permission before the OP came running out of his office? No, couldn't be that simple.
And the OP can read rank insignia but doesn't know the difference between uniforms?
And the recruiter just happened to be in the neighborhood so he just decided to go door to door cold calling?
Sometimes you guys are pretty gullible.
After re-reading, it sounds like the OP was talking to the recruiter, but the recruiter couldn't see him from where he was standing so stepped forward so as to be able see him...which actually seems like the polite thing to do...
He's not the police. He's not out to violate anyone's privacy. He probably is typically welcomed at the door. He's not used to tin foil DON'T GIVE HIM ANY INFO AND GET OFF MY PROPERTY types. He likely saw something that he interpreted as an invitation, but probably certainly didn't intend to offend.
I'd be willing to bet it wasn't quite as dramatic as portrayed.