He's in DEP with another branch. Had an arthroscopic knee surgery, but his recruiter told him that it was no problem and to not mention it so its not on his MEPS file. Now he's realizing how much trouble he could get in but his recruiter said that after the moment of truth at boot, he can no longer get in trouble for the omission of info, and told him that disclosing it would just hold up the enlistment process and possibly put the individual under scrutiny from MEPS.
Sounded bogus to me too. I had no clue what to tell him. My recruiter offered to help him but he lives in another state, so what my recruiter could do is limited.
Hey man, I'm good to go. I had all my stuff IN the file. My whole one ticket for a headlight being out, that my recruiter jokingly demanded the ticket for, which I still had, so its in my file too. I am TOO cool...lol
My buddy's big thing is that he doesn't necessarily want to threaten his recruiter and say "We can both get in trouble for this so discharge me and it ends here." Nor does he want to cause a big stink with his recruiting command. He is, however, prepared to not report on his ship date. He did say, though, that if his recruiter kept jerking him around and he DID go, he'd wait till the Doc asked if anything had changed since he was there last, and he would just whip out the med docs and say, "Well, my recruiter told me not to talk about these, but I think I should anyway." He told me he talked to some folks on the phone from the GI Rights Group, or something to that effect? He was ready to tackle hell with bucket of water after that conversation. I AM worried about him though. He's got cojones, but he's kinda thick about it. He's the kinda guy who'd wear a Sherman button at a Georgia picnic.
he doesn't necessarily want to threaten his recruiter and say "We can both get in trouble for this so discharge me and it ends here."
Ahhh, but see, his recruiter WON'T get in trouble, HE will. Unless he gets the recruiter to put it in writing, then he may have a case. Otherwise, it is the recruiter's (been in for several years, presumed to have clean record, is an E-5 or higher) word against your buddy's.
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Can he do that without bringing hell down on himself?
Much more so BEFORE he ships than after. HE takes the full brunt of any lies discovered during his in-processing (unless of course he gets that letter from the recruiter telling him to lie about...). HE is the one facing fraudulent enlistment charges if discovered. HE is the one caught in a lie. Unless of course he can PROVE beyond a reasonable doubt that his recruiter told him to lie. I don't care how big his cojones are, fix it now or face the consequences later, alone (i.e. without his recruiter).
