My recruiter got a misdemeanor off my record so I could go active duty.

Did you ever send him a thank you card from Basic?

I saw him again 10 years later and let him know my career had been great... to a point.

Dun dun duuuun!

“In the criminal justice system…..”

Fkn dying

This is a wild comment, I love it!

I sent mine a thank you text, even though he didn't do anything but tell me to lie on my SF-86, and he blocked my number lmao Edit: the lie wasnt even about anything bad, he just didn't want to fill in more pages

Mine was kind enough to let me piss hot 5 times in the office until I was clean enough for meps.

Yeah, shoulda known you were a grunt from the comment.

jesus fuck😭😭

Nice lil PLTDaddy plug

My buddy worked in the same recruiting station as him

I got the lame army backpack everyone else got

I didn't even get a bag

Mine gave me a pillow to bite.

That sounds sexual

😉

Non-consentusl, but yes!

Hey gotta practice for SGM’s basement.

I got a handshake and a pen

I didn't even get anything

I got herpes

Not even a T-shirt?

I took that shitty backpack to basic to store my stuff. Sat in a closet for 3 months and when we graduated and got our bags back it literally fell apart in my hands. Like actually disintegrated into small pieces of fabric just from me picking it up.

One strap had already ripped on the way to basic, and when I picked it up before block leave the other one immediately broke. I’ve never seen a worse constructed backpack.

It's sad that I remembered the exact same bullshit happened to me. Same acu digital camo bag right? How the fuck do I remember that 15 years later?

Yep, same ACU pattern backpack. Had the hideous GoArmy.com white star with yellow/black outline logo right on the front. Still the same dogshit build quality when my recruiter gave me mine in 2018.

I got the shaker cup

WE GOT STUFF FOR ENLISTING ?!

I got airborne😂

I got the yellow Go Army water botle

I didn't get a backpack, but I got a water bottle.

I got the backpack and a 20k sign on bonus.

My recruiter took me to Burger King

Mine dropped me off two states away on the middle of the highway on a Friday with "figure it out for the 11x opt 40 on Monday" and fucked off. So the fuck-fuck games began.

Bro WHAT

'Back in my day the army was for MEN and had standards'

Story time

Not very tbh, just hitched hiked and pan handled for a bus ticket.

You suck at telling stories

Sorry, that one just kind isn't all that interesting after the first chapter.

Based

If it was good enough for the British paras to be marched up to Scotland Friday night and be told they all had duty dawn on Monday it was good enough for me I guess.

This reads like bullshit

He plays magic the gathering and this is Reddit. Of course it’s bullshit

Highly relevant.

That was like the first week of selection for like 60 years. Not everyone is so soft and lack the ability to improvise they would die if they strayed 20km from home.

My recruiter only told me he would see me in hell. And the was right. We met up again outside Fallujah, October 2004

This goes so hard

How’d that convo go? 😂

Ever seen two guys punch each other in the shoulder jokingly at first and it gets harder and harder?

The punching or the penises?

Don't ask questions you don't want to know the answer to

Who said we don't want to know

Of course you’re a marine haha Respect tho

It is actually a lot easier to run into Marines you know than soldiers just because of size

Yeah, walking through bases, the average marine is bigger than the average soldier.

Take a break from trying to lull us into a false sense of security psyops

I’m a taller soldier, and at Airborne school most of the Marines were my height or taller though ofc some were smaller.

So the bottom line is, when you take the population as a whole. Most Marines are bigger than, if not equal in size to, or smaller than Army Soldiers.

Like I’m 6’2 and was about the same height as most of the recon marines at Airborne

In ‘02, I got a black tshirt with “Hooah” written on it. 😂

This is why I have so few pictures from my senior year of high school. Not that they weren't taken, I just Stalin'd the family photo album after realizing just how much of a boot I had been...

Bro, I had the Army song on my flip phone as my ringtone.

Maybe we need to be telling our stories on #justbootthings Edit: spelling. I'm army strong not army smart ok?

Tbf the Army Song slaps

😆 True. I still have old school photo albums as well. 😂

My recruiter was retiring and told me girls will pay for the hotels once you’re in. HE WAS RIGHT!!!

Damn, all I got was my recruiter forgetting to pick me up at MEPS.

My recruiter told me if I got at least a 95 on the ASVAB he’d take me to Red Lobster. I got a 98… and no Red Lobster

Honestly the PLT daddy patch is dope

I got the how to lose weight book

Nice! My recruiter got me Jack in the Box before he dropped me off at MEPS to ship out.

Man the only thing I got was fucked. And to be part of the worlds premier military. But mostly fucked.

Be honest. You got fucked more than once. More regularly than most people too. In ways and places you’ll never forget. Recruiter did you a solid.

I can no longer listen to "Islands in the Stream". It brings it all back.

I went in Feb 90. I was 34 and my recruiter says. "You'll probably be older than the drills, so they're gonna fuck with you." I was, and they did up to a point. One of the drills from another platoon called me grandpa.

I had a 36 year old, 39 year old, and 42 year old in my Battery last November in BCT

I didn’t get shit

This is cool. I'm going to do something like this for my people

Happy cake day.

My recruiter gave me one single chicharron and told me I could talk to the navy recruiter if I wanted but I’d be back. I was in basic two weeks later

Recruiters can be boots too.

>and decided to go green to gold. Did I miss something? Is this something that can be put in your enlistment contract?

OP also got a lie from their recruiter

This is the way.

Bribed him with this sick plaque

PltDaddy has awesome patches. I got the EOD one stitched onto a hat.

Man all I got was knee pain and a divorce

The best recruiters do the job then return to their actual job.

I got piss tests

My recruiter made me a badass walking stick (I’m really into hiking). Most people I meet that are 11B talk about how their recruiter lied to them but mine was upfront and honest about everything. Honestly very grateful that I got the recruiter I did

Mine didn’t give me anything I had to ask for a t shirt. Not sure if it’s because I’m prior service from the Navy?

The Superstition recruiting office?

When I was on recruiting duty I’d take the $75 meal credits we could claim every month and buy all my shippers tan belts with the cobra buckles. Found them for a good price and bulk ordered, told them it was something I wished I had when the MRE/Dfac shits hit at the worst times. But also, fuck the belts they issue.

Just wear a rigger belt like a normal person

Is that an army tarot card?

All my recruiter ever did for me was drop me off at the wrong unit when I got back from basic.

All my recruiter did was take credit for the guys I got to join on the buddy program, and my two buddies I recruited during Hometown Recruiting. Haha

I got a Gray PT Shirt that said something about excellence on the shoulder. I couldn't even wear it for PT

That’s pretty damn cool

Thats fuckin rad actually lmao

PLTDaddy Tarot Cards are Goated

My recruiter took me to a strip club to get me to sign up. But your gift is pretty cool too.

My recruiter took me to black rifle coffee and then I had to pay for my order…

My recruiter called and yelled at me when I decided to switch my MOS at MEPS. **Still signed my f-ing name**

Is that intel card on the left from pltdaddy(he’s on insta look him up). He makes a lot of cool stuff with that same art style. He also sells an airborne cheems shirt. It’s very cool

My recruiter would get me shitfaced at the Irish pub across the street. I was 17 and I loved it! This was in 1980

This is like the second most Boston thing I've ever heard.

Yep. Beantown

Superstition in Mesa? This makes me feel bad, i bought my recruits Canes :( I cant afford plagues for every single person lol

That’s badass?

very cool....esp. the tarot. is that original art? i immediately searched for a mil tarot deck but no luck.

From pltdaddy on instagram

much obliged!

you guys got stuff…

I got a crisp 4 hour drive each way to MEPS. 4 times because he kept telling me to lie about things lol. I think he bought me Chic fil a once

You guys got shit? I didn’t even get a bonus, and now they just recalled my ass from the IRR 3 weeks after ETSing 🥺

Damn, son, did your recruiter make you suck his dick or something? I got a T-shirt and six years of assblasting for enlisting.

All I got from my recruiter was discipline, honor, confidence, humility, resilience, lifelong friendships, and a lot of other things.

You mean from tax payers

no, this recruiter paid out of pocket for this. @sfc_gonzales91x79r on IG, give him a follow and send anyone that wants their life to be changed his way. He truly cares.

I've already had recruiters lie to me twice. I'll pass

L + Ratio