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Originally Posted by kane
Here is my worry about it. These recruiters are under intense pressure to hit recruiting goals. Many of them lie to your face and tell you what you want to hear knowing that what they tell you has no chance of ever actually happening. If you read and fully understand the contract, you might catch this, but the contracts are complicated and likely a person would need a lawyer to fully understand them.
Of all the people I know who have gone in the military only a couple of them have actually ended up doing the job they were promised when they signed up. Most of them either ended up in a combat zone or doing some job they hated that would not help them better themselves after the military.
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I don't think this is the case any more.
(Please don't laugh but....) When I signed up I signed up as a cook. My buddy and I had it all planned out - We did two years of the culinary arts program at high school (the culinary arts program ran a full restaurant open to the public), and worked nights at a local restaurant as cooks, severs, catering, and then managers. Our goal was to do four years in the Marines as cooks, and then onto culinary college, and then we wanted to work in Vegas at the hotels there. I ended up in the Marines and was told in boot camp I was infantry, 0352, TOW Gunner. No complaints. My buddy too - He followed me into the Marines about three months later and also ended up in infantry.
I don't think they have "intense pressure" to hit recruiting goals. Our military is sizing down and has been for the past four years.... They are being a bit more selective now.