I enlisted back in January and I am due to ship next monday on the twenty third. I gave my recruiter my two referrals and they both enlisted by the end of June. My recruiter told my that I had my meritorious promotion back in July. At todays poole function he told me that one of my referrals got credit for me as one of his referrals since he visited the Marine Corps website first. However he assured me today that the next person that enlists will be my referral. I would like some advice before I attempt to contact his Gunnery Sergeant and find out from him if I am being screwed.
Thanks for all help!
Sincerely


Morgan

First, this is the 2nd time I've has you to get Marine removed your log on. Contact Gunny Irwin, you do not rate using Marine in any context in a title as you have not earned it. GET IT?

Find the phone number of a recruiter in another city 200 miles from you, call them and they will likely tell you the correct person to get credit. Or, if someone tells you hear as well...Be very careful on how you accuse someone of things....I would think it all depends on if the recruiter ever contacted him prior to you sending him to the recruiter.

Morgan...Pvt to PFC is 6mo TIS. Not that big of a deal.

If you choose to make it a big deal then that is your perrogative.

Once you are in the ranks don't think that you can jump over your NCO's whenever you don't like or agree with what they are telling you to do.

Good point Gunner.....not a good idea to jump above ranks...

I went in as a Private and did just fine. We had some Marines down at Keesler that would still be in their MOS school when they picked up LCpl, because the school was so long.

first and foremost,remember that you are a poolee, jump your chain of command like that in the fleet and get slammed! suck it up! if thats what he said then have faith that he will do that!

Morgan...

To add onto Ali's post....

The military, and especially the Marine Corps, is not one to jump the chain whenever you don't agree with something. There are procedures in place you can choose to exercize once you are in the active duty ranks.

If you don't agree with what your recruiter is telling you then it's your responsibility to bring it up to him. He told you he would do something and you should hold him to it.

If you don't like the outcome....don't sign and just walk away. No hard feelings, no harsh words...just walk.

But, the underlying theme in every Marine's post has been that jumping the chain over something so minor is not a wise choice.

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Originally posted by gunnaB_aMarine:
I enlisted back in January and I am due to ship next monday on the twenty third. I gave my recruiter my two referrals and they both enlisted by the end of June. My recruiter told my that I had my meritorious promotion back in July. At todays poole function he told me that one of my referrals got credit for me as one of his referrals since he visited the Marine Corps website first. However he assured me today that the next person that enlists will be my referral. I would like some advice before I attempt to contact his Gunnery Sergeant and find out from him if I am being screwed.
Thanks for all help!
Sincerely


Morgan

Just to be honost with you um.. gunnaB. try remembering this saying i had to learn the hard way, IF IT AIN'T ON A PAPER, YOU WONT SEE IT LATER. thats all there is to it, some you can trust, some you cant. GET IT IN BOLD PRINT.

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Originally posted by 22362772:
... Just to be honost with you um.. gunnaB. try remembering this saying i had to learn the hard way, IF IT AIN'T ON A PAPER, YOU WONT SEE IT LATER. thats all there is to it, some you can trust, some you cant. GET IT IN BOLD PRINT.

While this holds truth... the responsibility does not lie solely on the recruiter.

It's your (the human who is signing the contract) responsibility to ensure the contract is written as you want/agreed upon.

No need to make sure something is in "bold print". To me that just shows a level of immaturity. If you issue/concern is written in the contract then it's a binding issue. Whether it's in bold, italic, all caps it doesn't matter.

Well, he should be in his 3rd week. Wonder how he's doing.

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Originally posted by 29P:

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Originally posted by 22362772:
... Just to be honost with you um.. gunnaB. try remembering this saying i had to learn the hard way, IF IT AIN'T ON A PAPER, YOU WONT SEE IT LATER. thats all there is to it, some you can trust, some you cant. GET IT IN BOLD PRINT.

While this holds truth... the responsibility does not lie solely on the recruiter.

It's your (the human who is signing the contract) responsibility to ensure the contract is written as you want/agreed upon.

No need to make sure something is in "bold print". To me that just shows a level of immaturity. If you issue/concern is written in the contract then it's a binding issue. Whether it's in bold, italic, all caps it doesn't matter.

29P this is true what you speak, but when i said BOLD print i was just setting up reinforcements on the subject. i got that from my old D.I that laughed in my face and said the same thing when i told him what the (recruiters) told me i would be. i got 4 people in with me, and STILL CAME IN AS A E-1 in the Navy.... That alone almost put a bad taste in my mouth for the USN.

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Originally posted by ipscone:
Well, he should be in his 3rd week. Wonder how he's doing.

I bet he doesn't care about Pvt, PFC, or General at this point he wants out...