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Sounds like a recruiter is having problems meeting "mission" and wants to get you signed on the dotted line during 3QTR. The 1SG was right; however, your problem is "the truth is a moving target". Issues beyond his control may change the truth several times before you are ready to sign. Accession missions (recruitment quotas) are based on MILPERCEN messages. The closer you get to the end of the fiscal year (01 Oct) the more likely that annual goals for accessions in particular MOSs will have been met and the career field will be closed until a new quota is established next year. Budget constraints are already affecting retention (re-enlistment) quotas. Meet your current commitments but be prepared to have to compromise the timing for the rest of your goals. Good luck.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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