Recruiting

[babyray]

Members, do anyone remember back in 1956, the recruiting billboards and posters saying "Join the US Navy, if you have a high school diploma, we will guarantee you a Navy school that you can attend." The recruiter in New Orleans, where I enlisted, confirmed this when I joined. I was a high school graduate but for 4 years, I applied for a navy school but was flatly refused. This made me very angry and made me become very,depressed. This year when I had a C&P exam for MDD, I told the doc and he noted that in his progress notes. I guess you can call this a stressor. I am 10% for MDD which I filed a RECON claim and is waiting a decision. Does anyone, whose old enough, remember this back in 1956. Please go back to 1956 and see if you can remember this recruiting slogan.

Babyray

[LarryJ]

Speaking of "schools" and not being allowed to attend the "school of my/ours/your dreams" and of "broken promises" by recruiters:

When I joined, I only wanted to get the hell outta Oklahoma, and I had visions of John Wayne charging enemy machine guns and lobbing grenades and being a "hero"!

(okay, so, I'm STUPID.....but, I'm a damn GOOD shot (figgered I needed to be, to make sure and become John Wayne, right?)).

So, the recruiter says, he says "You pretty smart. What do you want to be when you are a Marine? (I'm scared to tell him that I'm having visions of John Wayne!) so I tell him, "Oh, gee, I dunno, how about something to do with radios and calling for HELP, you know, sir, something so that I can SAVE my buddys' when the sh*t hits the fan.

(I'm STILL gonna be John Wayne, except NOW I'll be REALLY COOL and be able to call up 2,000 more Marines and SAVE THE DAY!)

So, there I was, an Infantry MOS with Field Radio.

JUST WHAT I ASKED FOR, right?

I forgot to ask how much one of them things weighed (and who would tote my M-14, and ammo, and water, and all that other web-gear).

I forgot to ask if painting a BIG RED BULLS-EYE on the Front and Back of me would help improve my "targetability".

BEWARE OF WHAT YOU ASK FOR!

you jist mite git it!

[LarryJ]

Oh, BTW.

Scr*w John Wayne!!!!

[babyray]

I just want to know how you make out on this. Like Windy states, I find this unbelieveable, and we wonder why the system is clogged <_< . But, again like the old saying goes, what one person thinks as not serious, is serious to another person (this isn't an old saying, I just made it up). If, you are successful, I have a list of broken promises that will choke an elephant.

Papa

I was rated 10% for MDD for pain of 4 SC disabilities, not for a promise not kept. Also, I was by told by a flight attendant at 35,000 feet up in a airplane on the way to San Diego for booth camp that I could not use the bathroom because of my color, on a flight from New Orleans. This stressed me out for 4 years in the Navy and still stresses me out 53 years later.

babyray

Edited September 16, 2009 by babyray

[babyray]

Stand down. No reason to lash out at any Veteran for a question. This goes for all.

Thx you Pete53.

babyray

[babyray]

Like Pete said. Stand down.

"The only stupid question is the one you failed to ask."

----LarryJ <_<

Thx you LarryJ. It was just a simple question.

babyray

[Commander Bob]

Speaking of "schools" and not being allowed to attend the "school of my/ours/your dreams" and of "broken promises" by recruiters...

...So, there I was, an Infantry MOS with Field Radio...

... BEWARE OF WHAT YOU ASK FOR!

you jist mite git it!

You probably carried a PRC 25 radio, aka ( prick twenty five. ) With two optional antennas, and an extra battery about the size of a brick. The handles of the radio were useful because you could stash C-ration cans in an extra pair of socks from each side of the radio... Plus all the other necessities of life. around 90+ lbs. We were young then LarryJ