RECRUITERS-CONTINUED

whtfucover said...

Recruiters are more highly trained today than they were in the 80's. Granted there are a few that have made the news by doing stupid things, but as a whole there are thousands of recruiting districts across the US and 1 or 2 out of a thousand is good. Recruiters are given a set goal monthly and are rewarded for their performance yes, but they don't lie. My recruiter didn't lie. I heard some whine about it while I was in, but it was few and far between. You kind of expected it from these people because they were worthless anyway. Anyone who signs up for the Military....Any branch should expect to be called up. To think otherwise is naive.

Also, you have to remember after Desert Storm, Congress took it upon itself to cut back on force strength, during the Clinton years it was also cut back some more. There was a push for more rapid response/deployable forces instead of bases everywhere. Military spending and force reduction was done almost every year throughout the 90's which is why these units are called up, just as they were in Desert Storm. They even called up the inactive reserves, people who had been out but had special training. The military did give them a choice on whether they wanted to come back and a good number of them did. As for halting retirements, they did that in Desert Storm also, so the ideas and problems aren't new, they are just being harped on because the media hates the war, hates Bush and will do anything to undermine the effort to rid this world of friggin scumbags.

Yes, there were some inactive reserves called up during Desert Storm, but how long did that war last? 100 days? It wasn't a hardship for them and we lost just a little over 200 soldiers in that war. And yes Clinton did a lot to hurt the military, the "don't ask, don't tell", cutting back on the manpower, working toward a faster, easier to deploy military. That is why in Somalia, we lost two blackhawks and several soldiers because he thought he could bring order to a lawless country with just a few soldiers.

Still brings us to the point that the military is hurting for soldiers. When they get to the point of having a finders fee to anyone who can get someone to enlist, that is a bit extreme.