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Jacob Ochs
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As I've said in various posts I swore in to the USMC in early August. My initial ship date was December 1st, then December 15, then Jan 1st and now most recently Jan 15th..... Now I'm being told that the latest I can leave is June 15th.. Has anyone ever had problems like this when joining? No information I have gotten since joining has been clear to me. It's not making me second guess or anything but it is really annoying.

 

Things have defiantly changed, now before you ship off to recruit training you have to stay 2 nights at the govt. building ahead of time before you leave. My uncle told me when he joined the morning he was supposed to leave the recruiter picked him up at his house and drive him to the airport, No BS involved!

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Back in 1967 my date to report was Dec. 27. Got dropped off in L.A. by my dad at the induction center, about four hours later we were sworn in and told to go home and return on Jan. 5. I think that your going in during the holiday season has a lot to do with the changes. Just go with the flow and you'll be fine. Good Luck

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If you want to go ask him to talk to the RS OIC. Tell him you are tired of being jerked around and are ready now. If they don't give you firm date call a different recruting office and screw him over. You are a lock for him and he knows he can push you off for when he really needs the numbers for that month. He is screwing you around. If they are serious about you going his OIC will get something done.

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If you want to go ask him to talk to the RS OIC. Tell him you are tired of being jerked around and are ready now. If they don't give you firm date call a different recruting office and screw him over. You are a lock for him and he knows he can push you off for when he really needs the numbers for that month. He is screwing you around. If they are serious about you going his OIC will get something done.

:yeah that:

 

Recruiters are funny like that.  As for MEPs when I went it was standard to spend two days at the hotel, but since I happened to live in the city where MEPs was located I didn't stay at the hotel, I just had the recruiter drop me off at the processing station in the mornings that I had to go, and then I got a ride to the hotel late on the second day, basically early enough to catch the bus with the other recruits from the hotel to the airport. If there are other recruiters in town, go talk to them. Contrary to popular belief, you can talk to anyone you want. The recruiters will play a game about how they can't speak to others recruits. But none of them can stop you from talking to them.

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  • 1 month later...

Update: well I was told last week I would be leaving Feb. 9th.... Well low and behold i was told today, "nope bad news" and now don't know when I'll leave. So with me thinking I was going to leave I sold the Explorer that I was going to use for the 5.0 swap and made a $500 profit. This sucks because I can't get a job since I could leave at any time. I've never not had a job since I've turned 15 and am really bummed as I feel sort of worthless at the moment with no work, so I think with the profit I made on the explorer ill start buying cheap cars and flipping them to keep me occupied. Hopefully I'll get to recruit training soon because my life is on hold right now.

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Grow a pair, walk into the recruiter office, damand a ship date. If he flounders walk out and tell him to get @#$%ed. You've been patient enough. Let them know this is their last chance to screw you around over a ship date. If they change it again tell him to shove your package up his @$$ and light it. If he sees you are serious he will fix it. If not go to the other services.

 

If he has questions he can call me

 

MSgt Robert L. Kennedy III

(229) 639-6649 work

(760) 668-6630 cell

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Grow a pair, walk into the recruiter office, damand a ship date. If he flounders walk out and tell him to get @#$%ed. You've been patient enough. Let them know this is their last chance to screw you around over a ship date. If they change it again tell him to shove your package up his @$$ and light it. If he sees you are serious he will fix it. If not go to the other services.

 

If he has questions he can call me

 

MSgt Robert L. Kennedy III

(229) 639-6649 work

(760) 668-6630 cell

:agree:

 

Also they say youre not allowed to talk to other recruiters... thats not actually fact... you just have to withdraw from your current recruiter before you can sign with another one.

 

Also... contacting your congressman is an excellent option.

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Grow a pair, walk into the recruiter office, damand a ship date. If he flounders walk out and tell him to get @#$%ed. You've been patient enough. Let them know this is their last chance to screw you around over a ship date. If they change it again tell him to shove your package up his @$$ and light it. If he sees you are serious he will fix it. If not go to the other services.

 

If he has questions he can call me

 

MSgt Robert L. Kennedy III

(229) 639-6649 work

(760) 668-6630 cell

 

Grow a pair, walk into the recruiter office, damand a ship date. If he flounders walk out and tell him to get @#$%ed. You've been patient enough. Let them know this is their last chance to screw you around over a ship date. If they change it again tell him to shove your package up his @$$ and light it. If he sees you are serious he will fix it. If not go to the other services.

 

If he has questions he can call me

 

MSgt Robert L. Kennedy III

(229) 639-6649 work

(760) 668-6630 cell

:agree:

 

Also they say youre not allowed to talk to other recruiters... thats not actually fact... you just have to withdraw from your current recruiter before you can sign with another one.

 

Also... contacting your congressman is an excellent option.

. Thank you, that's what I was told. Once your with a recruiter your locked in is what they say but I know that's not true. I will look into switching, only problem is the only recruiter near me other than this one is in the state of Illinois, will that matter if I'm in Missouri?
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Grow a pair, walk into the recruiter office, damand a ship date. If he flounders walk out and tell him to get @#$%ed. You've been patient enough. Let them know this is their last chance to screw you around over a ship date. If they change it again tell him to shove your package up his @$$ and light it. If he sees you are serious he will fix it. If not go to the other services.

 

If he has questions he can call me

 

MSgt Robert L. Kennedy III

(229) 639-6649 work

(760) 668-6630 cell

 

Grow a pair, walk into the recruiter office, damand a ship date. If he flounders walk out and tell him to get @#$%ed. You've been patient enough. Let them know this is their last chance to screw you around over a ship date. If they change it again tell him to shove your package up his @$$ and light it. If he sees you are serious he will fix it. If not go to the other services.

 

If he has questions he can call me

 

MSgt Robert L. Kennedy III

(229) 639-6649 work

(760) 668-6630 cell

:agree:

 

Also they say youre not allowed to talk to other recruiters... thats not actually fact... you just have to withdraw from your current recruiter before you can sign with another one.

 

Also... contacting your congressman is an excellent option.

. Thank you, that's what I was told. Once your with a recruiter your locked in is what they say but I know that's not true. I will look into switching, only problem is the only recruiter near me other than this one is in the state of Illinois, will that matter if I'm in Missouri?
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Grow a pair, walk into the recruiter office, damand a ship date. If he flounders walk out and tell him to get @#$%ed. You've been patient enough. Let them know this is their last chance to screw you around over a ship date. If they change it again tell him to shove your package up his @$$ and light it. If he sees you are serious he will fix it. If not go to the other services.

 

If he has questions he can call me

 

MSgt Robert L. Kennedy III

(229) 639-6649 work

(760) 668-6630 cell

 

Grow a pair, walk into the recruiter office, damand a ship date. If he flounders walk out and tell him to get @#$%ed. You've been patient enough. Let them know this is their last chance to screw you around over a ship date. If they change it again tell him to shove your package up his @$$ and light it. If he sees you are serious he will fix it. If not go to the other services.

 

If he has questions he can call me

 

MSgt Robert L. Kennedy III

(229) 639-6649 work

(760) 668-6630 cell

:agree:

 

Also they say youre not allowed to talk to other recruiters... thats not actually fact... you just have to withdraw from your current recruiter before you can sign with another one.

 

Also... contacting your congressman is an excellent option.

. Thank you, that's what I was told. Once your with a recruiter your locked in is what they say but I know that's not true. I will look into switching, only problem is the only recruiter near me other than this one is in the state of Illinois, will that matter if I'm in Missouri?

 

nah, you will likely go to the same processing station. Honestly just telling them you want to leave their program is going to get them moving. if you have talked to another recruiter in Missouri it might help if he knows your situation before hand just in case your recruiters try to pull $#!& like medically disqualifying you instead of dropping you from the roles. Have you asked the recruiters why your ship date keeps getting changed? if theyre pulling a stunt by keeping you around to swear in at a later date because they have less solid candidates they wnat to ship out before they lose them they may view you as a pending loss and move you up on the priority.

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  • 1 month later...

Talked to other recruits around the area and apparently the STL station is undergoing staff changes and that's why everyone's getting held back! Also I got 2 buddies of mine who had no plans after graduation to sign up and it ranked me up! So not so bad after all. Just thought I would give a update! Thanks for the support guys

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Also gotta remember that it isn't all hard men running into battle. They've got their own teachers and doctors and mechanics and other jobs in the military, too, and recruiters are the used car salesmen of the military.

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I got jerked around like that with Navy recruiters, eventually leading to me not shipping out ever and leaving the DEP. I'd follow shelbyluvv's advice. Also, if for whatever reason you have to see a doctor before you ship, don't tell them. Thats why I'm still a civvy and not on a ship somewhere.

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  • 1 month later...

Glad you finally got your orders Jacob, now go make the best of it. You don't need luck - just do your best. :cheers:

That's what I was thinking, I'm locked in as 3531! Thanks, My cousins best advice was be fast, loud and respectful.

Slow month right before school lets out. He was playing games. Either way good luck Recruit.

 

Tip for you. Do as you're told and do it fast.

 

I leave Monday, I graduate July 31st. Wish me luck guys!

Good luck brother, welcome to the Military!
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  • 2 months later...

Well done. Congratulations.

 

Re-reading this thread, I'm still astonished at how the recruiter jerked you around. I enlisted in the Army at the height of the Vietnam "conflict." There was no fooling around, no BS. I enlisted in Connecticut. At that time, Fort Dix, NJ, was a Basic Training post, and most of the recruits showed up at the processing center in New Haven, took the oath, and immediately stepped onto a bus that took them to Fort Dix.

 

I enlisted for Combat Engineer MOS, and Fort Leonard Wood, MO, was the engineer training center. I took the oath with all the draftees going to Dix, but they handed me a chit for a plane ride to Missouri and I left the same day for Fort Lost in the Woods. No fooling around, no waiting in some hotel somewhere.

 

Of course, the month I took the oath was the month with THE highest number of inductees for the entire duration of the Vietnam debacle.

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