Military Recruiters Caught On Tape Lying To Potential Enlistees

[JABBS]

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How hard is it for the military to recruit during wartime?

Apparently, hard enough that recruiters have to lie about the odds of a recruit winding up in Iraq, or about the ease with which someone can leave the military, an undercover investigation by ABC News revealed.

[Kerrytravelers]

1. Imagine that.

[Lowell]

2. Recruiters have always been liars

Any vet can tell you that. I remember the lies and spin they put on enlistment back in the 1960s. How else do you think they could meet their quotas? They are rated by their ability to recruit. If they told the truth no body would volunteer. I'm just glad they don't get prospective recruits drunk, hit them in the head and Shanghai them like they did years ago.

[ThomCat]

3. Very true.

They get judged on results, not methods, so they have every incentive to lie.

It is very fortunate that there are at least minimal restrictions on what they can do. Otherwise I'm sure they would be hosting ladies night at local clubs and signing up the guys at closing time.

[JABBS]

5. this was shown in farenheit 9/11

but the right spun that michael moore was an anti-american propagandist, so of course what we saw on video must not be true.

[bpeale]

4. My recruiter didn't lie to me

I wasn't promised condos & stuff like Private Benjamin. I knew exactly what I was doing and what it was all about. I went in in 1976. I had wanted to for 10 years but my mom stopped me. When I finally went in, I was in a place where she couldn't stop me. And it was everything I dreamed it would be ... hard, lots of work, different and ultimately, fun, but then I didn't go to war either. I got out in 1984.

[Bobbieo]

6. The military recruiter who lived next door

May not be a liar but he is not a very honorable man. The family were renters and left the house and yard in a shambles and actually took the picture window drapes, curtains rods and two bookcases - that I know of.

When they moved I thought he was going to Iraq - "Not me", he said "I'm a military recruiter and will never go overseas."

[flyingfysh]

7. recruiters also get sent overseas

One of the recruiters in the Michael Moore film was killed in Iraq.

Perhaps this is motivation for making quota?

[bpeale]

11. i ran into my recruiter years later in Germany

[JABBS]

9. u serious?

[bpeale]

10. absolutely. my recruiter did not lie to me or coerce me in any way

[flyingfysh]

8. the Commander-in-Chief lies

So why should people under him be any different?