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Ummm....What Do They Do in the Military Again???
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 358299" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I had a LOT of arthritis problems in high school and ALL the recruiters STILL spent at least 18 months trying to talk me into joining. The Air Force worked really REALLY HARD to get me to sign up to be an aircraft mechanic. I STILL remember one line from one of the letters they sent. They offered me" the opportunity to bust your knuckles with the best" by becoming an aircraft mechanic. I took the ASVAB test and tested very high in all but the clerical areas. I ONLY took it because we got paid $5 AND got the rest of the day off from school - on a Friday before Spring Break. In one month I got ten POUNDS of letters from the various branches of the military (including Coast Guard). I kept telling them they wouldn't accept me because medical problems. Recruiters will say ANYTHING to get you to sign up. At that time they got credit even if the person was not even sent to Boot Camp as long as those papers were signed. </p><p></p><p>I DID get a lot of free frozen yogurt because the recruiters office was down the mall from the only frozen yogurt place in town. They always had an eye out to see who was at the TCBY that they could talk to. I would ignore them so they would offer to buy my yogurt if I would talk to them for a couple of minutes. So I let them. They also would hand out coupons for free yogurts if they saw you somewhere and you tried to blow them off. Then they would try to catch you in line. </p><p></p><p>A couple of the recruiters did use the "you can travel the world and buy all kinds of great stuff that we will pay to ship home with you" line. </p><p></p><p>My brother went to Germany and all I got was the story about him shipping home a duffel of beer. But he spent all his free time in a tavern in town that the local people went to. He was relatively fluent in German when he got there so he avoided the other servicemen as much as possible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 358299, member: 1233"] I had a LOT of arthritis problems in high school and ALL the recruiters STILL spent at least 18 months trying to talk me into joining. The Air Force worked really REALLY HARD to get me to sign up to be an aircraft mechanic. I STILL remember one line from one of the letters they sent. They offered me" the opportunity to bust your knuckles with the best" by becoming an aircraft mechanic. I took the ASVAB test and tested very high in all but the clerical areas. I ONLY took it because we got paid $5 AND got the rest of the day off from school - on a Friday before Spring Break. In one month I got ten POUNDS of letters from the various branches of the military (including Coast Guard). I kept telling them they wouldn't accept me because medical problems. Recruiters will say ANYTHING to get you to sign up. At that time they got credit even if the person was not even sent to Boot Camp as long as those papers were signed. I DID get a lot of free frozen yogurt because the recruiters office was down the mall from the only frozen yogurt place in town. They always had an eye out to see who was at the TCBY that they could talk to. I would ignore them so they would offer to buy my yogurt if I would talk to them for a couple of minutes. So I let them. They also would hand out coupons for free yogurts if they saw you somewhere and you tried to blow them off. Then they would try to catch you in line. A couple of the recruiters did use the "you can travel the world and buy all kinds of great stuff that we will pay to ship home with you" line. My brother went to Germany and all I got was the story about him shipping home a duffel of beer. But he spent all his free time in a tavern in town that the local people went to. He was relatively fluent in German when he got there so he avoided the other servicemen as much as possible. [/QUOTE]
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