Nov. 3, 2006 - An ABC News undercover investigation showed Army recruiters telling students that the war in Iraq was over, in an effort to get them to enlist.
ABC News equipped students with hidden video cameras before they visited 10 Army recruitment offices in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
"Nobody is going over to Iraq anymore?" one student asks a recruiter.
"No, we're bringing people back," he replies.
"We're not at war. War ended a long time ago," another recruiter says.
Last year, the Army suspended recruiting nationwide to retrain recruiters following hundreds of allegations of improprieties.
ABC News found one recruiter who even claimed if you didn't like the Army, you could just quit.
"It's called a 'Failure to Adapt' discharge," the recruiter said. "It's an entry-level discharge so it won't affect anything on your record. It'll just be like it never happened."
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2626032&page=1
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2006-11-04 11:25:37 · 12 answers · asked by notme 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
They know volunteering has gone way down because of what's going on in Iraq and they will say anything to get recruits...even if they have to lie.
It's a real shame that some of the recruiters have sunk to that level by becoming just like the current Administration...they too are famous for keeping the truth from The Public!
I served in the Army Reserve for 6 years and was proud to do so but when I signed up, I was told the truth...My recruiter told me, it will be no picnic, especially if you are deployed to a trouble spot.
Funny that some recruiters would say :"We are bringing people back" when by watching the news, it's the opposite...The Secretary Of Defense has just given OK for even more troops to be sent to Iraq.
2006-11-04 11:42:45 · answer #1 · answered by MSJP 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My Uncle Don was a recruiter for 8 or 9 years for the US Army. His previous experience, and his job after retirement from the Army was sales. The best recruiters are salesman, they need to sell you on the job no more and no less than any recruiter from any other business or college. If you don't know what you are getting into by joining the military that is your own fault. We need to quit holding everyone else responsible for our actions. There is enough literature and enough veterans out there that you can find out exactly what military life is going to be like. And if you think for one second that you are going to join the service and have no risk of being assigned to a combat zone, you are a fool.
2006-11-04 11:55:40 · answer #2 · answered by sixfour76 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To be completely and brutally honest, it's because you keep getting a low score. Recruiters like it when they get higher scoring individuals because they can put them in better jobs etc. Plus, since all of the cuts and everything the Recruiters don't have to act all kiss-*** when you walk in their door. If they're being ***** then be a fking man about it and get over it. It's the military you are wanting to get into, not some prep school.
2016-05-21 23:54:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
right after the draft for Vietnam ended the Carter era was a disaster for all branches of the military he was running the whole US like it was his own private peanut farm the military suffered most having been in the marines at the time the service that gets what everyone Else leaves behind I know from experience and politicians and civies both need to learn if you treat your military with contempt you will have a contemptible military
2006-11-04 11:35:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How else were they going to get recruits? No one wanted to sign up for a death sentence! I think the whole thing is despicable.
I think that the draft should never have been dropped. We might not have overcrowded jails now if every young man and woman had to go into the military, for at least two years, where they would learn discipline and respect, if they didn't already have it.
2006-11-04 11:34:57 · answer #5 · answered by Marti1owl 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Answered this one for big brother already.
You do realize, of course, that your party wants to give the vote to people the military will not accept.
2006-11-04 11:37:19 · answer #6 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I usually don't answer a question with a question but this one I can't help
What part of volunteer don't you understand?
I've even enclosed a link for you to read on it
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/volunteer
2006-11-04 11:28:15 · answer #7 · answered by John 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
When recruitment's started to fall of.
2006-11-04 11:33:17 · answer #8 · answered by Mojo Seeker Of Knowlege 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Before the movie "Private Benjamin." When was that anyway?
2006-11-04 11:28:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
um Thursday
2006-11-04 11:27:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋