Q&A: Have you ever been lied to/mislead by a military recruiter?
Q&A: Have you ever been lied to/mislead by a military recruiter?
Question by california1488: Have you ever been lied to/mislead by a military recruiter?
Do the military recruiters actually know they truth about things or are they just passing on lies and misconceptions that they have been told? (Because they don’t know any better)
Best answer:
Answer by hopefulFA
they do know better.. the military lied to me .. i joined.. then left 4 months later.. i had lied to get in.. they told me to do so.. not worth it.. you are better off with a real profession.. ps.. they lie because they must.. we all do the best with what we have.. now that i left the military, i have to explain this to every future employer.. somehow.. something i am struggling with this minute.. i left four years ago.. (ten days ago) bye for now.
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As my brother said… (a Marine)
“Anyone that joined the military was lied to by their recruiters…”
That’s what they get paid for – to lie and mislead young people so that they can join the army
My recruiter happened to be dumb as dirt, so I just told him to cut the crap and that he didn’t need to sell me anything. I was more than happy to get out of my house at 18 and got the deal I wanted.
My recruiter told me how it was and I was all about it. I have been in for 10 years now.
Quick answer: Yes, they’ll lie and mislead you. If he/she needs to fill unpopular jobs, they’ll find a pretext to offer those jobs as the only fields open. If they get you to sign for those jobs, you’ll be locked into them. (referred to as “understrength”) If in one of those fields, your chance of doing anything else is: Slim to none. In some cases, a specialty that looks O.K. may block your future career. (ie; no airborne units, means no airborne for YOU) Advice: talk to a prior service, or present serviceman. Research before you talk to a recruiter. Know what you want and STICK to it. Call the recruiter’s bluff. I’d have been screwed had I not done so.
Not outright lies. He might have emelished the truth, but I wanted to serve my country! I’m very proud that I did. If oyu don’t do any research on such a big decision—shame on you. USMC
I wasn’t lied to, and that was 20+ years ago. I retired from the Army.
When I was a recruiter, I didn’t lie to my kids. Of course, I wasn’t the best recruiter out there, but my kids knew what they were getting into. I told my kids to come home and tell me if something was different than what I had told them. My kids came back to see me, and we would BBQ. One of my kids call me as soon as he got to Germany, and asked that I come and pin his SGT stripes on him when he got promoted.
Lying to the kids is dumb. They WILL find out the truth, and then let their friends know, and all that does is make the recruiters job harder. It wasn’t worth it. The damn job was hard enough without having the reputation as a liar.
Many of the people that claimed their recruiters lied to them, including many of your respondents here, say that because they got kicked out for being losers. Simply put, many people can’t hack it. When they get home they are too embarrassed to tell their friends they wimped out, so they tell everyone the recruiter lied to them. In this day and age, the military is all volunteer. In the military, there are no gaurantees, period! You get out of it, what you put into it.
My recruiter didn’t exactly lie, but he put his concerns to make his quota over my concerns of having a military career that doesn’t majorly suck because I’m in a specialty that I despise.
Bottom line, it’s best not to rush into an enlistment. It would have been better if I waited six months to get the job I actually wanted than to hurry as I was encouraged to get the second worse job in the Air Force. At least I’m not a cop.
They know the full truth, but if they told it, no one would ever enlist.
some do some don’t
No, but I have had VA benefits denied to my domestic partner
I guess I’ll be in the minority here. I was satisfied with my recruiter and felt he was honest with me for the most part. Once I was in, I got about what I expected.
Is there such thing as shades of truth? Go in expecting them to be like a used car saleman but instead of a used car they are selling a lifestyle. NUMBER one make sure it’s a MOS that can be used in the civilian world after you get out. That way if you get out at least you’ve gotten the training to transfer in the civilian world again. ANumber two, if they don’t have a MOS that interst you WAIT til they do and research it!
some will lie and some won’t..you’ll find that if you choose a recruiter who was DA pulled out of his original MOS to be a recruiter,,he will tell you exactly how it is and only put people in the military who really want to join…Also keep in mind,,the recruiters have nothing to do with “filling jobs that need to be filled” they just offer you the jobs that you qualify for and thats that. As recruiters it’s not their responsibility to seek out crappy jobs and fill them. There are recruiters who are true 79romeos who have converted to that MOS for recruiting. Those are the snakes you need to watch out for,, they’re really good at selling you on something you’re not really sure about. GOOD LUCK!
You know a military recruiter is lying if they have a pulse.