Just a few question?

-How many of you 79R's on here were combat arms?
-Why did you decide to become a 79R?
-Why didn't you want to go back to aline unit and do your job.

I'm in school now at Jackson and it just blows my mind thinking about why any soldier would desire this, regardless of feelings about war, ability to do his PMOS or anything else, ecspecially with all the bad things about this job.

-During recruiting do you become so far detached from what you signed up for that you don't want to go back?

Not trying to start a fight or insult any of you, If I do, I apologize, but to me, I think I'm missing something.

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Per angusta en augusta-Through difficulty to greatness

I was not combat arms before becoming a 79R but one of the reason I switched was an event that happened when I went to ANCOC for my MOS. I had another NCO tell our Small Group Leader he saw me cheating on a couple test (which never happened) and I alomst got kicked out of ANCOC because of this. I decided at that time I did not want anything to do with NCOs like that

So your telling me you left your MOS and went 79R to get AWAY from crocked, back stabbing NCO's?

Sounds pretty much like everything I've heard alot recruiters are.....

You know dude (since I can't see who I am speaking to on your privat profile) it realy doesn't matter why someone would convert to a 79R as that is a personal choice. It could be a matter of seeing that what you do has an impact on changeing someones life, or you could be at a place where staying will be the best for you and your family.

I was selected twice for status and knew from the start that it would not be easy. The job of a RECRUITER is to "PROVIDE THE STRENGTH" for the volunteer ARMY. To do this you as a NCO in the ARMY must remember that you are in most cases the only contact with the ARMY the folks you deal with is YOU, so how you present yourself is how they see the ARMY. It will be long hours, lots of frustration, and at the same time rewarding, when someone says SARGE this is the best thing that could ever have happend to me.
The biggest thing you have to remember is if you cut corners, cheat a little, or dip a dep, is YOUR CAREER or YOUR MARRIAGE worth it. You have to stay within the regulation and the ARMY VALUES. If you are doing everything you are suppose to and not stepping over the line and still not making mission then know in your own heart that you took on the mission and went down trying as hard as you could, you will be released from status and returned to a unit. This you can recover from, stepping over the line or out of the regulation will get you burned.

When I was selected as most, we were in the top TEN (10) percent of our career fields so that made us PROUD to be the ones representing the ARMY. I don't know if that is the case now days or not.

After being retired for sixteen (16) years I have been contacted by HRC in St Louis to return to Active Duty as a RECRUITER for the third time and just waiting for the final selection and orders to move down range. This is an HONOR as far as I am concerned to again have the opportunity to serve this COUNTRY, and ARMY of ours.

To you who read this both service members and SPOUSES I want to say THANK YOU for the sacrifices and the jobs that you do for this country of ours.
Spouses RECRUITING DUTY is a three (3) year deployment with intermitent (daily) contact with the service member, not as much as you would like but more that being in the box with out dodging hot lead. Here you take the butt chewings and do the best that you can with out crossing the line.
Again THANK YOU for your sacfifices and service to our country.

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Originally posted by importdayz:
Just a few question?

-How many of you 79R's on here were combat arms?
-Why did you decide to become a 79R?
-Why didn't you want to go back to aline unit and do your job.

I'm in school now at Jackson and it just blows my mind thinking about why any soldier would desire this, regardless of feelings about war, ability to do his PMOS or anything else, ecspecially with all the bad things about this job.

-During recruiting do you become so far detached from what you signed up for that you don't want to go back?

Not trying to start a fight or insult any of you, If I do, I apologize, but to me, I think I'm missing something.

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Per angusta en augusta-Through difficulty to greatness

I was a detailed recruiter back in the mid 90's and never for one minute thought about converting. I can tell you that ALL of the 79R's I encountered while on recruiting duty were the most worthless sorry SOB's I've ever seen. One was a reject from the Marine CorpSs who went Army and deceded to hide out as a 79R after working at the new recruit inprocessing center at Ft. Jackson. Another one I knew converted because his MOS no longer existed and he couldn't hack it in another MOS. Nearly all the 79R's I saw were lazy, overweight, and got their rocks off by trying to belittle and harrass their field recruiters. The worst were the "ring knockers" who would sit at their desk banging their coveted recruiter ring on the desk to remind everybody what a recruiting god they were. About the only thing worse than a 79R is an officer assigned to USAREC.

I agree worth less bunch of crap.