Posted on Jul 8, 2016
I am currently looking at requesting Army recruiter for my next assignment. What does the daily life looks like for recruiters now?
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COL Michael Freville
After I retired from the army, I became a contractor with medical recruiting command. I was a mental health counselor. I would say if anyone is interested in being a recruiter to go to the medical recruiting command where the people you were trying to recruit are much more professional types.
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Worst job I ever did in the Army! Would never do it again. Iraq tours were better. Recruiting has the worst leaders in the Army.
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It was absolutely the worst tour of my 21 years in the Navy. I was begging to go back to a nice vacation spot like Mogadishu. Until that tour, I had always worked within a team, people I could ALWAYS count on to have my back no matter what. In recruiting, I had no friend in the office or the surrounding stations. Recruiting ruins many good Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines. I would never recommend sending a good troop there. Luckily for me, I got off on good behavior when Saddam reared his ugly head the last time and the fleet needed my services more than recruiting did. Thank God for war and terrorist so that we have someplace safe to go to...
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To add to my previous, I generally go to work at 0900 and get off at 1700. If your center leader has balls it certaily works out in your favor. The worst part is trying to convince a bunch of jackoff teenagers that they will fail their first year at the local community college trying to get a degree in sports therapy. The upside, plenty of TDY at a hotel bar getting shit faced. Bonus!!!
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Recruiting sucks that was all I gotta say about my experience just runaway. You'd be better off doing Drill
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A lot depends on location and your command. I loved it and hated it all at the same time. Glad 08-11 and ran straight back to Bragg.
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Career wise I'm told that it is good as a broadening assignment. I worked in South Texas and I was driving 5-6 hours a day. I seen a lot of people talk about it what you make it. That is true. I did not like it but I had a mission to do so put everything I had in it. My wife told me she would rather have me deployed than do recruiting again. It will be hard on your family life. But everyone has a different experience. The two other detail recruiters I worked with loved it and converted
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My Wife made the same statement to me after one year of being out here. "She would rather have me deployed again".
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I am pcsing on Tuesday out of recruiting. All the comments here seem to be on par for what is going on.
Background: I placed second in my office in contracts written for this fiscal year, won brigade physical competition for the year. Selected to go to usarec level audie murphy (4 from my whole brigade) and was just threatened to get a letter of reprimand for not making 2 appointments this week, mind you I'm on orders.
There may be some good places, but they are certainly not in central California battalion. I would seriously consider another special duty assigbment. There is NOTHING to gain and so much to lose out here.
Background: I placed second in my office in contracts written for this fiscal year, won brigade physical competition for the year. Selected to go to usarec level audie murphy (4 from my whole brigade) and was just threatened to get a letter of reprimand for not making 2 appointments this week, mind you I'm on orders.
There may be some good places, but they are certainly not in central California battalion. I would seriously consider another special duty assigbment. There is NOTHING to gain and so much to lose out here.
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