Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Common Interests Have the Military recruiters resorted to this?

I never got a call from any recruiters until I showed interest in the Navy around my 19th b-day. Got some hounding Navy ones, and met up with a Marine recruiter that I pretty much told I already joined the Air Force before he'd leave me alone...

I keep reading articles in Stars and Stripes about the Army and Marines missing their goals by a lot. The Army even reduced it's goal, and it still didn't meet that.

Then you read the last sentence in all of them that says "The Air Force and Navy didn't have any problems meeting their goal".

You can say they're not joining the Army or Marines b/c they think they'll not be deployed over here. But that's not the case... a bunch Air Force people (including me) went through some crash course Army convoy/survival training so we could come over here and do whatever they felt like making us do (read: they wanted us to be their [censored]). I suppose I was lucky to end up in Kuwait doing my normal job at the Army bases around here. The other guys we trained with ended up going to Iraq and may actually be using the skills the Army taught us.

All I can say is good luck to those in the hostile areas...