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Old 01-11-2011, 17:05   #23
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I am in need of some more advice, and although it does not directly relate to this, I figured starting a new thread for the topic might be frowned upon.

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I have been having a tough time with recruiters:

The first of my recruiters outright lied to me, saying that he would "pick me up at 5:30am the following morning to take the ASVAB," which he definitely registered me for.
By 6:00am, I figured out that that the first part was not true. After a rather discouraging 2 hour ordeal of arguing my way onto my local MEPS, I found out that the second part was not true either.

I ended up scoring a 99 on the ASVAB, am routinely scoring a 250 on APFT before I can even get a medical exam , let alone a ship date, and have STILL been getting passed of from one apathetic recruiter to the next because (I was explicitly told) quotas have already been met.

Its really a shame. I'm sure its been said before, but it seems to me that selecting recruits based on when in the recruitment quota cycle they happen to wander into an office, rather than on what they genuinely have to offer the Army, will inevitably rot the organization from the inside out.

But perhaps people in my predicament appeal to your experience:

Do potential recruits have any options for encouraging recruiters to work with them? Or, at the very least, do we have ANY method whatsoever to have recruiters held accountable for outright lying to potential recruits?

I considered writing a letter explaining the situation to the recruitment station commander, and possibly the command sergeant major regarding the situation. Would that be in bad taste?
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