Why would USMC recruiters avoid a candidate?

Being personal friends with a marine recruiter, who is on the process of enlisting me right now, I can tell you it was because you were prior service and we are always much more difficult and there is much more paperwork involved in enlisting us. He even told me if I wasn't his friend, they wouldn't have bothered enlisting me due to me being prior service and the difficulty involved in the process.

I'm currently enlisting with the Marines and my recruiter is awesome. I was informed that prior service guys get priority shipping to basic.

yeah...one marine recruiter told me im too old at 32.....ok i will go to the army they thought i was bluffing..............i sure did went to the army and serve my country for 13 1/2 yrs until i was medically discharged

Get some professional training in the Reserves and get on with your life. The Corps has already shown that they won't see you as a priority. The best you'll get out of wasting your time with them is a snazzy outfit to take pictures in for the ladies. Learn your trade, get as many civilian certifications as you can while you're still in, get a job in your field, and move on.

I worked in recruiting for a spell. The ONLY reason why a recruiter would leave you hanging is because no matter how good as your ASVAB score is and your physical readiness is, you still missed a mark somewhere in your screening. My first guess is the prior service. The bottom line is that everyone that walks through those recruiting office doors is placed on a priority list. Maybe that month, they were focused on bringing in more females or other demographic. Who knows? It could have also been that the office had already met their quota. This gives the recruiter more time to focus on the "hard sell" candidates. A walk-in with previous service who already meets the requirements is a no-brainer. All you have to do is sign papers and make your way to San Diego or Camp Lejeune.

I would have showed more initiative and found a different recruiter. My recruiter flew me from Texas to Kansas befor sending me off to boot camp.

I agree with the others here about your Recruiter Dropping the Ball in your case. Now there are times where yes there are times like some said where Recruiters will turn down, avoid, deter a Viable Candidate like they said policy changes. In 1991 I just graduated Boot and got put on Recruiters Assistance for a month and during that time Orders had come down from the Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Carl E. Mundy Jr that we were not to recruit Married People and shortly after receiving those orders I got a Great Candidate High ASVAB score, Fit and highly motivated but Newly married (about a year or two) he could've pick any MOS he wanted but I had to sit there and convince him the Suck wasn't for him. Which as any Married Marine will tell you is True for the most part Especially for Grunt Unit Marines and other Deployable Marines. Lots of stress on a Marriage. So I had to tell him all the shitty parts deploying for 6 months to a year and he couldn't take his wife with him, always being at the Corps bec and call 24/7, that when he deploys his wife loses BHA because the Corps is feeding and housing you while on deployment all that happy horse shit (at that time) just so he would feel better about us denying him and then lead him over to the Army Recruiters office.

some recruiters are horrible , they just suck up all the air and paychecks.

If you want to join the Marines and you meet the requirements when you sign the contract all you need to do is take it to the Reserve personnel office and they discharge you.

You would need to contact a prior service recruiter instead of a canvassing recruiter. Do that next time. Prior service is a different route and they didn't want to spend the time on you more than likely.