How long should have to wait before the Air Force recruiter calls me?
I sent for an information packet from the Air Force website to be sent to my home. I got a confirmation email saying that an recruiter from my area will call me. It's been over three weeks now and he hasn't called. I tried to call him and i've left messages and sent him emails but he's not returning any of them. I only have one recruiter to go to. I am getting very irritated with the situation should it be so hard to contatct and Air Force recruiter? What's going on?
My navy recruiter sucks! need some help please!?
Here's the deal, I went to see a Navy recruiter when i was 17 and didn't get many answers to my questions. All he felt like talking about was port calls and random other things. Any real question i asked was always quickly put aside, and I never really got a strait answer. Basicly I felt like just a number in his book. I instead looked to the Coast Guard and I have been happily enlisted for just over 6 years. To deal with your problem though, there are a couple of things you can do. First try to call his "boss" at the recruiting office and try to get the answers you can. Second, you haven't left for boot camp yet so you can always threaten to back out of the enlistment if they are unwilling to work for your needs. As far as going in as an E2/E3, at least in the Coast Guard you are an E-1 in Boot Camp, however get paid as an E-2 or E-3. To become E-3 right out of boot camp, you usually need some college, honor scouts ect. After completing "A" School, which is similar to other services specialty schools, you become an E-4. But like I said earlier, try to talk to the Senior Recruiter at the office and that should get the gears moving.
How did Top Gun affect military recruitment?
Per Wikipedia:A motion picture producer, John Davis, claimed that "Top Gun was a recruiting video for the Navy. It really helped their recruiting. People saw the movie and said, 'Wow! I want to be a pilot.'"The United States Navy stated that after the release of the film that the number of young men who enlisted, wanting to be Naval aviators, went up by 500 percent.Paramount Pictures offered to place a 90 second Navy recruiting advertisement at the beginning of the videocassette for Top Gun, in exchange for $1 million in credit towards their debt to the Navy for production assistance. An internal memo to the Pentagon from an advertising agency rejected the offer, noting that "Both movies are already wonderful recruiting tools for the military, particularly the Navy, and to add a recruiting commercial onto the head of what is already a two-hour recruiting commercial is redundant."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top...
Why are Air Force and Navy recruiters so awful?
Yes, that is exactly it. The Air Force doesn't need to recruit as heavily. In fact, they have been actively letting folks go for years. The Air Force invests more heavily in equipment and training than a large volume of personnel. It is even worse if you approach an Air Force recruiter with your mind set on acquiring a particular job. Popular jobs are in high demand and if you immediately identify yourself as someone who is not willing to work with the recruiter to fulfill the Air Force's manning needs, you'll be seen as a lower priority in his/her eyes. He needs to work to satisfy the Air Force's needs and doesn't have an obligation to you until/unless you begin the enlistment process. In fact, it's possible that there are even more Army/Marine than Air Force recruiters in your area, and the Air Force recruiter is overworked, because the Air Force doesn't allocate as much resources towards recruitment as the Army and Marines do. If you're determined to enter into the Air Force, and your recruiter is proving hard to work with, you should try to conduct some independent research via the internet and then approach your recruiter in-person with a very good idea of what you want to do. This way he doesn't need to perform his sales pitch, will view you as a more certain prospect, and will treat you accordingly. Remember, even though it is the military, you are still applying for a job. In this economy, where good jobs are in high demand, even the military is not a free pass.
How hard is AF EOD Tech School?
First of all, there is no "AF EOD Tech School;" all EOD Recruits go to the same Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal (NAVSCOLEOD) at Eglin AFB, FL (runs by the Navy, but on USAF Base). USAF, USMC, & Army EOD Recruits will attend the same class (Navy EOD Recruits start out seperately), but after a few weeks, there will be few Navy EOD Recruits that will be rolled in with you guys (or girls). EOD School has quite high attrition rate comparing to many other military training; and it is not one of those training that the instructors will just push you to graduate, even though, you don't deserve it. There are a lot of things to learn and memorize, and paying attention to details is crucial. Use your study time wisely, since the studying materials are not allowed out of the school house. As far as physical, I think (my own opinion) Air Force EOD is a bit more physical than many other Air Force jobs, but not as physical as Navy EOD Pipeline (not downing anyone; it is what it is). If you are in a decent shape and exercise regularly, you should be fine. USAF EOD Recruits will be at EOD School for about 8 months, counting weekends, holidays, and class up/admin. time (10 mos. for Navy; underwater ordnance), but before that, there is a Prep. Course which I'm not sure how long it is, may be a month (check with the recruiter). BTW, you call yourself "future soldier," but asking about USAF EOD ??? 10-4
Can you take the ASVAB at the army recruiting office for the Air Force?
Yes you can, I took mine in the Army office and went Air Force but for a different reason ,once your meps certified you can pretty much go to any branch
Why do the U.S. Marines have a reputation of being dumber than members of the other U.S. military branches? What caused this reputation to form and to what extent do you think it is true today?
The Marines took me, and I’m a complete retard.I decided to enlist in ‘98. I cover it in detail in that post, but basically, everyone else turned me down. I was barely a year out of high school, and I barely graduated that, and already had a record. I was fat, overweight, had lost all my wrestling fitness in the 8 months I’d been out of school eating pizza, drinking milk shakes and banging my GF (who would later dump me for some Navy guy, over a long distance call from the Korean DMZ), and looked like crap.I had a Ritalin prescription because some “Doctor” said I had ADHD, but instead of taking the meds, I’d kept myself in movie and gas money for several years selling mine and my sister’s prescriptions to druggies who snorted it. Don’t worry, my sister was in Junior high but she got her cut.So, yeah, Army turned me down. Air Force really turned me down and then I met these very unscrupulous, shady mother fu#$@rs, hanging out doing pull-ups, who told me the right answers to put on all my paper work, and when to change my story if questioned, to finally get me an enlistment.Those shady individuals were Marine Corps recruiters.Look, maybe it’s all very different now and the Corps is hiring rocket surgeons straight out of DeVry, but back then, they would take anyone, I say again anyone, with a pulse.And thank God for it. I got paid to shoot machine guns, blow things up and play hide and seek professionally.I write more here.
What's the easiest and least rigorous military branch or position to train for?
That’s a bit of a loaded question! Want to live great, but only be served small portions of food then join the USAF. After starting as a water cooled machine gunner in the USMCR I was sent to Aviation Structural Mechanic. I later found out the USAF had 26 different MOS’s to cover mine in the USMC & USN. I’m sure each were far more skilled in a single facet but we had to do more under more difficult conditions aboard ships or in Vietnam! The Army has a number of MOS’s that would be combined into a single one in the Navy or USMC. The Army has some really horrible posts and tons of paper work compared to the Marines and Navy. Want great food and clean quarters join the Navy or want even better food (plenty served with no questions of heavy good tasting food to fuel hard working troops), learn a technical skill and have a noticed spot on your job resume that WILL BE NOTED by civilian companies in your field? Then you belong in the Marines. If you are career oriented, like to study and work honestly to get ahead on your merits with great and unbelievable duty stations, as well as some really isolated ones, then join the US Coast Guard! They have the fairest promotion and evaluation system of them all!