"Recruiting is an ugly, deceitful, evil empire" [View All]

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From: Soldiers for The Truth site:



"The Army’s All-Volunteer Force is taking casualties it hasn’t even recruited yet as more and more young people dismiss military service as an option after high school. The Army recruited 27 percent fewer soldiers than it needed last month and the trend continues downward as the no-exit war on terror drags on, according to the service’s own statistics...



“We are competing with civilian companies for the same, sharp, bright young people looking for jobs,” Smith explained. “Whenever the economy gets better – and of course we are glad the economy is improving - the Army has a more difficult time attracting young people.”


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Nonsense, said Sergeant 1st Class Johnny Caia, an embittered Massachusetts-based recruiter. He spent 10 straight years between 1993 and 2003 trying to enlist two soldiers a month to meet his “mission,” the name the recruiting commands applies to its quota requirement. He is now on the Temporary Disability Retirement List (TDRL) after having a nervous breakdown that cost him his family, his job and most likely his career after 19 years of soldiering, he said.



”Recruiting is a very ugly, deceitful, evil empire,” claims the former recruiting “station commander” in Amherst, Mass., who moved to Ventura, Calif., to get away from the painful memories he left there.... “The 1st Sergeant would call up and say, ‘Caia, I don’t care how you get that man in there, but get him in there, you know how it works,’ the Caia claims. “It took them ten years to break me, but they broke me. Most of the time it only took three years before a recruiter began to lie.”



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