Who has had this experience in the military? (Sub-question: How bad did the Recruiter lie in your first meeting? :))

My recruiter told me I was extremely good looking and would make an excellent Soldier. Evil, lieing, monster!

My recruiter was awful, but I was in ROTC before I joined so knew how to find the resources. The bad part was that she filled out my SF-86 for me thinking random information would suffice for getting a security clearance. I had to fill out another at MEPs, but for some reason they put the original in my IPERMS. I'm hoping that's the one that was comprised during the hack.

My Recruiter didn't lie at all. Four of us enlisted on the "Buddy System" and he told us that we would be together at Parris Island in Boot Camp and he also told us that we would most likely be going to Vietnam. And, that is exactly what happened. We stayed together during Boot Camp and then we split up at AIT and we all eventually ended up in Nam. It was better then being drafted!

With the exception of that one lie, everything else was on the up and up! What lie you ask? (I still feel stupid for this) It was the lie about the Air Force taking summer vacations (like schools)! As I look back, I keep telling myself that maybe I misunderstood... Or was I really that gullible??? LOL!

Mine never lied to me. There were questions I never asked, and he never volunteered info for, or fully explained, but he never lied. Anything I asked about he told me. I can't fault him for any missing information, because "how would he know, I didn't know?"

I appologize to all those who say thier recruiter was the worse. Personally as a recruiter, i make it my goal to get all the needed information across.

I dont let a prospect take the pratice test till i feel they are "into" the idea of processing.

I encourage everyone to loom back, if it hadent been for the "bad" recruiter, you would t be here. Even if so, it gives you a basis of what YOU don't want to become.

On a second note... Try being a recruiter. Not as easy as you would think. Not everyone waltzed into a careere center and said "i heard uncle Sam callin' here i am, sign me up!"

My recruiter was horrible and went to jail for a bunch of stuff, so when I had to become one I went home and made a point to be the honest broker! I did real well even though I hated it instead of writing the minimum 2 a month for 36 months for a total of 76 I wrote 179 contracts in 35 months!

My recruiter was a Gunnery Sergeant who has been wounded (almost killed) by a landmine in Vietnam). He looked the part and played the part. He was a poster board type Marine. If he didn't think for a second someone didn't measure up, he would tell them to leave, or try another branch. I saw him do it a number of times. He would say, that gut would completely screw up my Marine Corps, not going to happen.

He never lied to me or anyone that I knew of. He gave it to us pretty straight and let us go through the MOS selection process. If you did not pick infantry (or a combat arms MOS) , he had special names for you.

I remember him coming to my parents house to get their signature, I was 17 at the time. My Dad, being career Air Force, thought I was making a huge mistake. He said, in front of the Gunny, "son, the Marines treat their people worse that anyone. They get the worst gear, the worst bases and the worst food" (he said a few more things too). When he was done the Gunny looked at him and said, you are correct sir, that is all true. He still signed and the rest is history.

I had a great recruiter. He was very straight forward and honest. He had been in service for around 18 years or so at that time, had multiple deployments, and didn't have anything to lose. He told me what I needed to score on my ASVAB in order to get a good job and what my line scores needed to be if I wanted to go Officer. At that time, I had no idea what that 110 meant. I just knew it was pretty important according to my recruiter. He told me it wouldn't be all peaches and cream at Basic but it would get better at AIT. However, he told me it would be just like a regular job once I reach permanent party and it was. I remember sending him a postcard thanking him once I made it to Basic for not lying to me. There were so many Soldiers at Basic crying about how their recruiters had lied to them promising them the moon. To this day, I am still in touch with my recruiter via Facebook. I am thankful to him for not lying about the military and I am happy I made that wonderful decision to join the Army. It changed my life forever in so many positive ways!

Chief, you started in 92, so things were much different. I enlisted in 79. They promised us "free healthcare for life" back then if we did 20... Tricare is nowhere near free, and our so-called leaders make it much more expensive every year, with things such as the 60% increase in Pharmacy Co-pay this year.