Recruiter told me to lie at MEPS...?
Before I went to MEPS my recruiter told me to say NO to every medical question that was asked...so I did... and everything went fine. I got in. But now I am about a week away from my ship date and I am getting really nervous about this. Has anyone else been in this situation? When I was young I broke both of my wrists & sprained my ankle. Nothing major but it still has me worried. What are the P-Days like at Navy boot camp? Is any of this likely to come up? Am I worried for nothing? Any answers will be helpful.
My Navy recruiter said that when I go to MEPS, I have to pick a job on the spot. Is this true?
Is it a true? As with all things a Navy recruiter will tell you it’s all “true”. The question is should you? And most importantly do you?The process is (at least when I did it/ to the best of my memory) is you pile into a car with the recruiter, head down to MEPS with a couple of his other recruits, take the ASVAB, get a medical exam, meet a detailer. The detailer looks at your ASVAB and if you’re 85 or higher you can have the pick of what’s available.Given there are 57 different ratings in the Navy and various specialities that cascade from underneath that, how do you the civilian with no Navy family to talk to make the right decision at that particular moment of time?IMHO, if you’ve scored well on the ASVAB you should be a FC/CT/ET. If you’re a math whiz go nuclear. Those are going to equal awesome jobs if you decide to get out. They also had the highest re-enlistment multiples.Now, the thing is, if they don’t have the job you want, you can always just leave. There is no penalty for not picking the job and committing to the date at that exact moment in time. In fact, if you do, and you change your mind later, you can still break the contract because you aren’t part of the military yet. They want you to think so, but up to the day you ship off to bootcamp you can back out without penalty.One final word of advice… DO NOT ship off as an undesignated seaman. NO NO NO! You’ll go to the boat, scrape rust, and paint stuff for 2 years, then maybe, just maybe you might get sent off to an A school of the ships choosing.
Recruiter Practice Test vs MEPS ASVAB?
Have to agree with the two above me. As for the first post, MEPS HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH YOUR JOB!!! Your date to boot camp is set to synch with your date to MOS school. Once you get a MOS, that is it.......unless YOU want to change it. This is for the Marines, I can't speak for the other services,.,,,,,
How long after meeting a Navy recruiter until you go to MEPS?
That depends entirely on you. If you're trying to expedite the process, you could theoretically go from the office to MEPS in about three days. When you factor in issues like needing medical or legal records, you'll add time on to that. Your recruiter must make sure that you at least appear to be qualified for service (meaning that they have all of the records needed for MEPS to make the final determination and that they've covered the mandatory requirements for enlistment.) For every few items that you answered YES to on the medical prescreen, add another 24 hours. That time is for MEPS to reference their instructions to ensure that nothing is disqualifying on it's own, like being HIV+, in an extreme example. If you already had a qualifying ASVAB and had no legal or medical issues, you could probably go from the office to swearing into the Navy in about 4 days.
I lied at MEPS about childhood asthma because my recruiter told me to, what do I do now?
From the way your question is written, I will assume that you have enlisted in the Delayed Entry program and have not shipped to Basic Training.Recruiters have been known to cure people of childhood asthma from time to time, I think they receive that training at the Army’s Recruiter School at Ft. Benjamin Harrison.I would remind you that up until now you have signed several legally binding documents that indicate that you have no such history of ailments and that you understand the consequences for concealing any Medical or Moral conditions that exist.If what you say now is the truth it would serve you well to remember that at one point lying about your Medical History sounded like a good thing. If you report this fraud that you have committed you will not be going to Basic Training on the assigned date, you will be released from the Delayed Entry program and if you wish to enlist again, you will have to go through the process again and will have to undergo further medical examinations at your expense.If you lied once, you have probably lied twice. And you are probably lying now about this newest outbreak of Morality.If you want out of the Delayed Entry Program just tell them you are not going to ship out. Tell your recruiter that you have had a change of heart and have decided to do something else with your life. You may have been told that failure to ship on your ship date is a breech of contract and is punishable under Title 10 of some Code. Forget it. If you want out of that Contract then “Just Say No”, I Won’t Go. It really is just that simple.You are waffling, and you are putting the future of a non deserving Recruiter at risk. If you ruin his career and take away his livelihood is that going to bother your any?
Recruiter taking too long to schedule meps?
i have already taken the asvab and have been waiting over 2 weeks to go to meps. i called my recruiter twice already and she told me she didn't hear nothing about my application from meps or ill be the first one in once there is a open slot. should i go to a different recruiter? or just wait it out. i got my ears cleaned as a precaution for the ear test at meps and my current recruiter has the papers saying i got it cleaned. did a lot of paper work with this recruiter already.
Are there any MEPS classifiers or Military recruiters who can help me?
I am a MEPS Classifier and I have been telling you exactly what is happening the whole time. EVERYTIME you get on here you tell a different story. The first time you said you were told by your recruiter to lie about all your criminal history. The next 50 times you said you had forgotten you had all these charges and sometimes you said they were misdemenors other times you said they were felonies. Sometimes you said you had the paperwork saying the police in NY said you were fine and all charges were cleared. Other times you said they still had some items not cleared up and finally you also said they had no record of you doing anything at all. ANTONIO, you are a GIANT lier or at least a really horrible story teller. Your Recruiter has done everything he can do. You just don't understand how the military works. You have wasted EVERYONE's time by telling BS story after BS story. The waiver paperwork that you think is not necessary IS necessary for every single offence you have. The Navy does not want you. You are not an honest person at all and adult military personnel have seen through you a long time ago. The stories you tell NEVER stop and they are tired of your games. If you would have been honest at moment one you would be just fine right now. Now you are just in the system until your time runs out. You WILL get a call from your Recruiter about 3 days before you are supposed to ship out and he will tell you that you have been discharged from DEP and that you won't be going to Boot Camp. The CO and everyone else involved in approving your waivers have seen your whole package and they aren't even going to waster their time to give you a disapproved waiver. YOu wasted the Navy's time so we are going to waste your time some. I have seen this many times when a candidate lies all over the place and has different story for everything. We don't even bother to process these people because they are not serious candidates. This is YOU. Go back to the mall and work really hard. The military will never be an option for you unless maybe you tell the truth all the time. You never listen to anyone so maybe this will be a really large learning experience for you to teach you to always tell the truth.