BWAHAHAHA!! I got a recruiting package at my parents home

[southernleftylady]

with a DVD and everything...
they are trying to recruit ME!!
"stand ready"
wow... wonder how much all this cost.. do they usually do this?? I'm kinda old to be recuited???
(I'm 27.. i thought recruiting age was 18-26?)
I'm 7 months preggo
have a 3 year old son..
am against this war
and they want ME (girly girl) to be in the marines????
BWAAHHAAHHAAHHAA!!!

[HockeyMom]

1. 12 year old

I read a while ago the same thing happened to a local 12 year old. He even started to get phone calls from a recruiter. When his parents told the recruiter their son was only 12 and to please stop calling, the idiot said "Well, it's never too early to THINK about it."

They are either extremely stupid, or extremely desperate. You decide which. lol

[CanOfWhoopAss]

7. Idiot recruiter knows we'll be in Iraq in 5-6 years anyway.

[punpirate]

2. I'd go down to the nearest recruiters' station...

... with the package in hand, saying, "uh, you wanted me?"

:)

[johnnie]

3. Someone might have put your name on a list

For a "joke". Do you have any enemies?..lol.

[CanOfWhoopAss]

8. Great Idea...

I'm in Georgia and the majority of Georgians support the Chimperial Grand Monkeyboy. Think I'll show the recruiters some support and do what I can to help recruit some knuckle dragging zombies.

[SouthernDem2004]

4. Just goes to show big brother isn't watching you...yet.....

[southernleftylady]

5. my sister said that they must have gotten my name off of the unemployment

list since i was unemployed for 2 years

[fat free goodness]

6. "I wonder how much all this cost"

Probably about 75 cents. It would cost way more to qualify the list so it only gets sent to "very likely" prospects.
Simple marketing - the ads that miss the intended target don't hurt, and they may get passed on.
Just because they invite you to apply doesn't mean they want you.

[southernleftylady]

9. oh now i dont feel 'wanted' anymore :(

;)

[No Exit]

10. My one-year-old saved me from the war(s)!

I worked as a prosecutor when my first son was 1. Lots of the people I worked with were in the reserve. I was the only income in our family at the time, so when I said I could use more income, they suggested I join the reserves.

I called up and asked about it. They told me I'd have to go to boot camp for something like 6 months; after that, I'd just have to go for one 2-week stint per year. And of course I'd get paid. It was sounding pretty good, but then they told me I would be completely unable to have any visits, even from my 1-yr-old son, while in boot camp. I knew that, for the sake of a small child's sanity, I couldn't just disappear from his life for 6 months. (He was too young to understand any explanation we might give.)

So I turned it down.

Shortly afterwards came the Gulf War. I'd have been in the middle east! Whew.

[DemonFighterLives]

11. I'm 46 and already did a stint in the army 20 some years ago

I just got invited to join the National Guard. They have 10,000$ waiting for me. Hmm? I think I'll pass. I don't want to go over to Iran and be blown off the earth for dubco.