well shit it sure wasnt 1 hour of talking.....got outa there at 3pm went in at noon
one of the first things i came out with was, "well if u want me to be honest with you i want you to be honest with me, you and i know that recruiters arent known for telling the truth 24/7."
his reply "well in this office im going to tell you the truth about everything, because out here when u get through boot camp ect and you dont get what we told you, you will come home and talk to your friends and tell them that 'Sgt. fucking lied and fucked my ass over' and then my rep would be down the drain and no body would come talk to me anymore..."
i didnt say anything after that. but i thought by the time i come back and talk to my friends that he would be long gone by then lol so why would it mater.
then we got to talking about the 11 traits the marines have and what they can help me improves and all that ghey shit....blah blah blah that took up and hour and we only got through like 3 lol we got to the technical skills card, then the Gunny came and we talked about 1.5 hour. talked about becoming a sniper and he was telling some stories about one of his sniper budies. talking about the differeance about a "sniper" and a "marksman". talking about its not hard to shoot but the hard part is how to get into pos to take that shot, and that is what the differance is, sniper sneaks around and marksman just shoots. marksman is imbeded with a platoon and uses a M14 (i like) and get posted in a pos and just shoot...about 30days of training. sniper does 9weeks and is dependent upon himself and his spotter (i like even more) got some stories from him that are pretty koo
blah blah blah then it gets to the point where he asked me "do you want to be a marine? is that what you want to do?" ya "ok well lets do this lets get you signed up, lets talk to ur parents and get ur physical done and get you signed up and shiped out" .......wtf lol then alittle later when i was asking him the time lines and ship out dates he was saying "oh well you said you wana be a marine right? well stop contridicting yourself and make up your mind if thats what you wana do or not..." WTF!!! so that right there put the pressure on (this isnt the recruiter its the gunny, the boss) later on was talking to the recruiter and he askes "ok so when you guna talk to you mom, when are we guna set up a time so i can come out and tlak to your mom?.....oh tommorow you got rifle team...hmmm ok call me after that and talk to ur mom tonight then we'll set up a time for maybe the end of this week and ill come out and talk to your mom...." oh fuck na.
they are trying to get me in the "delayed entry program" every monday and every other saturday they have physical training night, to get rdy to go to boot camp. which would be if i signed up atm leaving in August... and thats somthing i did not want to sign up for or get into till later
so more of that crap comes on untill it makes me mad, and i think back to what my dad, reddog, charlie, and other ppl said. "dont let them push you around, it your desision and your life dont let them make it for you" LOL so i told the little beotch off "hey i didnt come in here wanted or expecting to sign up for anything right now. let me decide when i want to start doing this not you. so stop telling me 'ya we'll set this, this and this up and do this this and this' and let me decide when i want to do them. im still 17 and im still a kid and i still got to finish school." and more. so that kinda pissed me off and i didnt hear anymore shite like that from there on
then i was about to leave and asked them about a signing bonus.....get ready!.....you ready? THEY DONT GIVE OUT BONUSES UNTILL YOU REINLIST!!! wtf is this BS! they said they feel as if they have to pay you to join them, then they arent what you are looking for (they called it 'prostitution' lol).....i went on asking about rank and paycharts. they stoped me and said "if your joining the marines for money, you are joining for the wrong thing." my reply "ya but money is life, without money you cant live" then they went on talking about the reinlist bonus. after you have done your four years and proven you can do the job they would pay up to 33,000$ for inf to come back....they said "why should we pay you to do somthing when we have to teach you how to do it? instead when we know you can do it and want you to come back"
i still have questions so guna go back later (who knows when) gota talk about the jobs i can do to get to sniper school and what jobs i can do for back ups ect. told them before i sign any fucking paper to enlist i wana know what im guna be doing!
they said there would be a 50/50 that im either going to iraq or afganistan, and would be on duty from 6-8months
got any questions? need more
thx guys, you guys have been a huge help
f18ace you around?
P.S. ben, they said once you get into sniper school, unless you quit they will let you come back and keep on trying. they said the marines are the best and will never tell you "no" but they will say "not right now" and if you really want it you will keep on coming back and trying to do it.
thats for sniper school, you cant join up being a sniper...