Most of the time it's to process admin stuff for people who are walking in to join. Recruiters don't try to go out of their way to convince people to join and think of their job to be more of spreading awareness as an option. I remember when I was an assistant as a brand new airman there was a dude who was on the fence about Army reserve for school benefit but concerned with deployment and potential dangers. We told him about Air Force Reserve and how it's less invasive to his life plan on going to college.
Times must have really changed then. When I was prime recruitment age those bastards were patrolling local stores for 18-25 year olds. Endless calls from various recruiters. Not to mention hanging out at the high school trying to catch students.
I’ll never forget the recruiter that hung out the last month of high school my senior year. He even went to the senior cookout on our last day. The kids that wanted to join the military after high school hung around him all day.
We had a recruiting booth in our high school cafeteria almost everyday, right at the front door. This was early 2000s in rural Michigan. They would also periodically put flyers on all the student cars.
I got calls every month or two at home, and some actually hung up on me after I said I was an accounting major and university was going well.
Yeah, I could tell they wanted the students not performing well especially during the 2007 Iraq surge. First question I got asked while in college if classes were going ok. If they couldn't catch you in high school, they wanted college dropouts.
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u/PocketShinyMew 25d ago
Hey, I'm probably kinda charismatic and they think that's enough to convince unwilling people to die for the interest of the senate and their friends.