thepieman wrote:Ok so whats next then meggie? School Baseball Games?School Football games? Maybe a table outside the Prom Dance hall? You were asking for ideas a while back on where or how to recruit people. How about Church picnics? Where will the next creative idea take another recruiter? If its as good as you say it is..you wouldn't have to go to them , they'd be flocking to you. Either way, you being a recruiter of sorts yourself are of course going to be biased and of course the parents of these children will have no bearing on what you or other recruiters will do to accomplish your tasks. As you have said in the other thread similiar to this...its pretty much that you take it personally, rather then something to protect the kids. Maybe when you get older and another war such as this comes along and you have children you may change your tune. Going by what you say, you should be in a much better position , in a much better neighborhood, good job and your kids will more then likely end up going to college...you too may feel that your kids education is more important then risk having some recruiter who may or may not be on the up and up possibly interrupt their education.
Pie
the army has its bad sides, actually yesterday i drove a van full of highschool seniors to one of our military installations. One of the kids asked me on the way home.. "ok, youve told me all the good things, whats the bad things about the military" i was just as honest as i was about the good things, i told him that it sucked sometimes, getting up at 4 or 5 am sucks, getting forced to be uncomfortable at times sucks, being cold at times and hot at times and tired, sucks. Being able to be forced to go to a different country for a year or so, sucks. But u know i know more people in the military that look at being deployed as an opportunity rather then this thing looming over there head.
Honestly pie, im not a recruiter, i have absolutly nothing to gain by getting kids in. But i love what i do, i love the military, and it has enriched my life more then any job could have. I try to tell people about all that it has to offer, because i love it so much. Just like if you really loved selling pies, it turned ur life around.. it made you feel great about yourself, being able to sell pies and make pie loving people happy. Im sure you would go ask people if they wanted to join u. The truth may be that sometimes the pie oven burns u, but its part of the job, and certaintly is outweighed by the good. Most of these rectruiting type things i volunteer for. Because i love to talk to these kids and tell them how its effected my life and the lives of my friends in the military. I dont have quotas to meet, no one is on my back to recruit anyone, but i enjoy it.
The reason people arent flocking to the military is because of people like you. I see them all over. People have brainwashed kids to think that if you join the military you are going to get screwed over by your recruiter then you are going to die in iraq. I talk to kids all the time that would never join and when i asked why they say "i dont want to die" Theres a risk, im not denying that. I embrace that risk, just like police and firefighters do everytime they do their job. I see so many adults that say wow i wish i had this opportunity when i was younger, and so many kids saying that they would join but their parents told them that they would practically disown them if they joined.. so theres a lot of people missing out on these opportunities and not fully noticing it until they are too old to join. Thats why people arent flocking to us, thats why we have recruiters at all. Talking to these kids today, there were some that never knew that we paid for college, that never considered the military but now realize that its a great platform to start their professional careers from.
I think i more then a parent understands the risks.. I will be the one over there, i will be the one scared or hungry or homesick. My mom has her only 2 children in the military. I know it scares her. But, i know shes proud of us.. besides it makes me feel good that i didnt have to be a financial burden on her when it came for paying for college. My mom isnt a non caring workaholic either, my mom is about as june cleaver as u can get.. I know it bothers her.. but she would rather see us do what we wanted in life then for her to hold us back and regret it later in life.
And again, the miltiary doesnt interrupt college, so many of the people in my unit are in college full time, i was in college full time and in the military. They even have a program where u can go to basic training during the summer of your junior year and your skill training during the summer of your senior year, so you can go right into college right after u graduate like everyone else. The argument that the military interrupts college has no real truth to it.
/ system b 
