re: How honest is military recruiting?

Yeah, I was lied to.
Except hot chick was hot just a b&t&h.

1. All hit chicks you want.
(Fattys that get out of 1982 Ford Escorts the car rises 6”)

2.Enough money for Loweider which was my goal.
Nope I would have been better off flipping burgers at McDonald’s

3. See the world
Ok, yeah you do I seen Mian Indian ruins, been to Europe, seen monkeys get mad at me for clearing their home on a crawler tractor - D8 Dozer. They get mad when you clear out parts of a jungle that was their home.

4. Get on the job training
1st time around chose 12B combat engineer. The lady at meps tried to offer me a quartermaster job, heavy equipment operator job, or 88M Truck driver position.
I did reclass as a 62E and 62J down the road.

Did go to jump school early 80’s my CO was big in airborne thing and actually sent five of us cherrys or guys new to the unit. He would sit in chair and tell us stories, show us his Airborne tattoos on his arm, and always ended with hot women or being a hero.

Jump school was not like he said.
We use to run everywhere he left that out.

Then we got back to the unit he kept pushing that hey the Airborne needs good young troops.

5. You get hot women sometimes.
The girl that claimed we were engaged in Germany was 6ft 4”, nice body.
ok, long blonde hair, blue eyes, and nice fun things to play with. She was just a rough person to deal with as she was an E7 over paper clerks.
She treated me like a rag doll and callled me her b&t$h. Beat me at arm wrestling and beat me up a few nights. She hit hard. She bought an engagement ring for me to give to her as her goal was to get married before she turned 30.

6. You get $2500 sign on bonus.
They divided it between so many checks you never noticed.

7. First check goes for uniforms, hair cut, PX stuff, running shoes, and stuff like that.

8. I admit I had some fun times and then in combat not so fun times. You do have good and bad days just got to suck it up. Good place for young people to learn life skills.