Making tomorrows Military today: More "stay away from my kid!"

More "stay away from my kid!"

“We have to do a better job because it is essential that parents know their rights,” Larry Sykes said. “I have seen recruiters sway kids with promises of what they can do after they enlist. But once they are in, [the recruiters] have very little or no control over where the student is sent.”

Yep. We do that. We tell them that we cannot give them a guarantee where they will go except for basic training and technical school. but yet, somehow, we are blamed when the kid is a dirtbag. I recieved a phone call from a mother yesterday blaming me that her son was popped on a drug test for marijuana. It is always the easiest to blame the recruiter instead of the family member.

Can any military recruiter out there tell me when they recieved a bonus for putting someone in? Mr Sykes thinks we do...

“I think it comes down to dollars and cents for the recruiters,” Mr. Sykes added.

Talking out of his ass. Typical. And he says that he was prior Army. What a shame.

Militantpundit posted @ 11:04 PM

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Oh, paahleeeze! I want to ask these parents whether they are so afraid that they have done such a piss-poor job of raising thinking, logical children that they believe that a military recruiter can convince their child to enlist against the child’s will? Well, then the hard sell of some universities will be more than they can handle and they should be on guard against all those liberal arts, lefty-leaning colleges that promote godlessness and socialism… or perhaps the righty-leaning, uberconservative colleges of the Bible belt? Surely they must oppose one or the other of those ideologies (in addition to opposing the military) and surely they must be demanding that those college recruiters be denied access to their precious and vulnerable children, eh???

My son had a great recruiter (trust me when I tell you we made him WORK to enlist our son)... but he was straight forward, honest and up front in talking to us. We and our son maintain contact with him still...

Posted by Some Soldier's Mom @ 7:16 PM, July 01, 2005

They really like making your job hard don't they! How's your blood pressure?

Posted by loboinok @ 9:06 PM, July 01, 2005