tkmac58
11-21-06, 03:40 PM
I havent posted anything for awhile, after the election things kind of slowed a bit. I want to start by wishing every Marine living and/or gone to heaven "Happy 231st Birthday". Thats how I am going start out my post, I have been retired now for almost 14 months after 27 great years in the Corps, I had my good and bad times but after being out here for a year I really miss belonging to a family. A few weeks ago I decided to attend the Marine Corps Ball with my bride of 22 years, we attended the Recruiting Station Oklahoma City Marine Recruiting ball at the Marriot. Yes I got pretty wasted, drank and toasted a few shots, and boogied the night away. I will always love the ceremony, and hoopla of our birthday balls until the day I die. This year I could sense allot of changes in our fellow Marines, at least in the recruiting arena. Most of our young recruiters today have done 1-2 tours in Iraq, some have purple hearts, bronze stars and silver stars, and most of them volunteered. Either they were trying to get a break from deployments or they(and I believe that most of them) are trying to make a difference. I spent 15-16 years on Recruiting duty after 10 years in the fleet and the far east so I can know what is right and wrong to this duty. Me and my wife were seated next to my old recruiters who are now NCOICs and have there own recruiters. I would not of had it any other way, these are good men and loyalty is there middle name. They seemed troubled and not motovated to me, when I asked what was going on they sang like birds. The things I heard embarassed me and left me very disapointed in the way buisness is being conducted. Here are a couple thing I want to share;
1. GPS tracking systems on all govs.
2. Senior SNCOs being called liars and being investigated about everything.
3. New Recruiters fresh out of Recruiting School being told at all levels to call the CO, SGTMAJ or Recruiter Instructor if the NCOIC does something they perceive as wrong, or there work hours, or if they get harassed or picked on, they have also left the door open for there wives. The rumor is that they are also being told this in Recruiting school.
Now is this happening because the military is in the spotlight because of the war, the media, the minimul amount of recruiting fraud. Its seems to me that the recruiters in the Corps are kicking ass on active duty enlistments, so what the **** is happening. This info comes from a GySgt and and a meritorious SSgt, one with combat tours
The GPS thing is BS!!!!!!! And it is because a few ****ed up, DWI, Speeding, taking them home etc.. Its kind of funny is that in my days especially earlier in the biz, Officers, SNCOs all took there GOVs home. GPS is not the answer when your dealing with Marines that most have given sacrifice after sacrifice to our Corps. One of my big Pet peeves is that you have Career Recruiters 8412s who have been to boot camp, mos school, one year at a base, and 20 years on recruiting and are MSgts, MGYSgts, etc. and some were reservists and have never seen the fleet. I was an 8412 but did my time and never forgot who I was and what these Marines mean to me. I always believed in tough love and respect. My father was a Korean war Marine (Chosin) and said that Chesty was what a man was about. I have Marines on this website that will tell you what I am about. I have been relieved, shot at, screwed over, ****ed over, but I always fought back because the Corps is about us, its an enlisted Corps that will not die.
I got off the subject a bit, I am concerned and cant be convinced about why this is the right way to do things. I can not explain everything right now, but I want to communicate with all of you to get your opinion, you dont have to be PC about it, we are not disrespecting the Corps or breaking the law, we as Marines have to make a difference, just like the old recruiting video, "Such as regiments pass down", we need to continue to pass down for good or bad.
Last time I posted I received over 100 replys, so lets kick some ass and maybe the right person will be listening. Even if you dont like recruiters please give me your opinion, I didnt like my recruiter either, but I wanted to be a Marine.
Semper Fi
TKMAC58
1. GPS tracking systems on all govs.
2. Senior SNCOs being called liars and being investigated about everything.
3. New Recruiters fresh out of Recruiting School being told at all levels to call the CO, SGTMAJ or Recruiter Instructor if the NCOIC does something they perceive as wrong, or there work hours, or if they get harassed or picked on, they have also left the door open for there wives. The rumor is that they are also being told this in Recruiting school.
Now is this happening because the military is in the spotlight because of the war, the media, the minimul amount of recruiting fraud. Its seems to me that the recruiters in the Corps are kicking ass on active duty enlistments, so what the **** is happening. This info comes from a GySgt and and a meritorious SSgt, one with combat tours
The GPS thing is BS!!!!!!! And it is because a few ****ed up, DWI, Speeding, taking them home etc.. Its kind of funny is that in my days especially earlier in the biz, Officers, SNCOs all took there GOVs home. GPS is not the answer when your dealing with Marines that most have given sacrifice after sacrifice to our Corps. One of my big Pet peeves is that you have Career Recruiters 8412s who have been to boot camp, mos school, one year at a base, and 20 years on recruiting and are MSgts, MGYSgts, etc. and some were reservists and have never seen the fleet. I was an 8412 but did my time and never forgot who I was and what these Marines mean to me. I always believed in tough love and respect. My father was a Korean war Marine (Chosin) and said that Chesty was what a man was about. I have Marines on this website that will tell you what I am about. I have been relieved, shot at, screwed over, ****ed over, but I always fought back because the Corps is about us, its an enlisted Corps that will not die.
I got off the subject a bit, I am concerned and cant be convinced about why this is the right way to do things. I can not explain everything right now, but I want to communicate with all of you to get your opinion, you dont have to be PC about it, we are not disrespecting the Corps or breaking the law, we as Marines have to make a difference, just like the old recruiting video, "Such as regiments pass down", we need to continue to pass down for good or bad.
Last time I posted I received over 100 replys, so lets kick some ass and maybe the right person will be listening. Even if you dont like recruiters please give me your opinion, I didnt like my recruiter either, but I wanted to be a Marine.
Semper Fi
TKMAC58