No experience needed! Full benefits! Paid training!
So I'm thinking to myself.. hey hey hey! A job that comes with not only training, but training by the Military! If I ever leave it that'll look good in the future!
...so I call the 800 number and it was just a covert way to get people to enlist in the Navy.
So, yay.
Though he does kind of hate it.
You get paid for how many people you recruit (Like, a bonus)
They proceeded to call, e-mail, and snail mail him roughly four times a week for the next six months or so.
Frankly it doesn't bother me too much. Armed service is an attractive prospect for me, aside from the fact that I'd probably die in boot camp, and then there's the whole "drop-off-the-face-of-the-earth-for-a-few-years" thing.
My recruiters, on the other hand, were very cool. So straightforward with me. (Before everyone butts in and says they were only BSing me to get me in, can it. As a military buff, Air Force brat, and third year JROTC member, I pretty much know what is true and what is sugar coated.)
My recruiters even went as far as to tell me to look at other prospects first, and that they would kick my butt for me if I turned down something like a scholarship in favor of the service, if I was only joining for the college (which I'm not. I'm joinming because I want to serve my country)
They layed things out pretty straight for me through the whole thing, and the first time I was in there, they showed me the DEPer's drop slip that could release me from my contract, no questions asked. If I want out, all I have to do is say so. They never tried to force me into anything. Even when I signed the papers for enlistment, they didnt do what most recruiters do. They made me read each and every paper and explained everything in fine detail. Many recruiters will shove a paper in your face and say what its general meaning is, and tell you to sign it.
The Navy (which is the branch I enlisted in, of course.) has impressed me the most by far. Not to offend anyone of another branch here, but the other recruiters just... left me underwhelmed.
The AF recruiters here wear their uniforms badly, are typically far above the military standards for weight, and always look like they're senile old men trying not to fall asleep. The Army recruiters, while good enough guys to hang with, are not responsible at all. A friend of mine who just enlisted in the army has not been able to contact his recruiter since, never been to a DEP meeting, and never even is able to check in on the phone. I know its not for lack of trying, because I've watched him try. Now, the marines here... I know military guys have a streak for swearing, heck, my recruiters do it... but these marines take it far to the extreme. I have never heard more disrespect for the uniform than I have for them. And they really didn't give me any good reason for joining them, they were more interested in talking about porn and crap like that.
Now, I don't hold that view for all military personell, of course.. but that's just my venting on recruiters for now. 
Best one was when my dad just got back from oversees, we was still answering the phone with his rank.. My dads side of the conversation was "Hello this is Lt Cmdr. Doig...No my son isn't brain damaged so I don't think he wants to join the army, anything else to waste my time with Private?" never got a call from them again
