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Originally Posted by MeganS  I'm sorry, and I kind of know what you're going through.
My older brother (turned 17 in December) wants to join the Marines SO badly.
The recruiters come to our school (and have their own table in our cafateria), and they talk to the students that they're allowed to talk to. It really bugs me....I mean, they come to a high school where 90% of the kids are still trying to figure out what they want to do with their lives, and they are wearing their fancy uniforms with the nice badges and telling the kids everything they want to hear. I have no disrespect for our troops and I support them, but I don't like the way recruiting is done AT ALL. Our old neighbor was in the Navy, and he's managed to convince my brother to go to college before joining anything (he wants to be an RN), and I'm hoping that once he gets involved with that lifestyle he'll just forget about the Marines. and I know that's selfish....but I can't help it.
I'm really scared for my brother. He's my only sibling and even though we fight occasionally, we are really good friends and I don't know what I'd do if something happened to him.
So...sorry for threadjacking. |
Megan, I agree with you about the recruiters being allowed to come into the schools to do their recruiting. After having worked at our local school and seeing this go on I was always disturbed by this. I mean it's one thing if a person wants to walk into a military recruitment office, talk about joining and sign.....totally another to come into schools with young, sometimes confused, impressionable people and "candy coat" military life.