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This is some of the text of an email I just sent my family and friends:
Well, Chuck has news about his next Army assignment, and it's not Iraq, but it's not good, either. In July he goes to Recruitment school.
*bangs head on desk*
If you have been following the news lately, you know that recruitment is at an all-time low, and there is a lot of pressure on the recruiters to keep up quotas, so the next few years we will be rough. Chuck will have long hours and a lot of stress, so please keep him in your thoughts and/or prayers.
The good news about recruiting assignments is that we are not necessarily going to an Army base, so we could be based somewhere in a town near YOU! Of course, with the amount of family and friends we have spread throughout the country, it's a good bet we will be within a couple of hours of at least one of you!
So there is that, at least.
*sigh*
Chuck says that they will tell him where we are moving about halfway through his recruitment school, which means we should know some time in the first part of August (just in time for my birthday--yay). The day we are supposed to be ...wherever we are moving... is 29 September. ........
So, yeah, I'm grumpy. And also: yes, at least he's not going to Iraq.
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Owie. I remember when recruitment used to be a good thing. Good luck, and I hope you at least get to live somewhere fun.
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Well, he might get lucky if he gets assigned to a reasonably large city. Otherwise, being a recruiter is not good even in peacetime. It's a career killer.
My cousin was lucky and got assigned to Milwaukee. He didn't have too hard a time, but it was still rough. Lots of late nights. We hardly ever saw him. He's now in Drill Sargeant school and happy to no longer be a recruiter.
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PC, you are too correct. My dad was a recruiter for the Navy when I was a kid, and he hated it. I'm resigned to rarely seeing him. The upside: total control of the remote! *snort* DI'ing is time-consuming too, but at least you're dealing with folks who are already committed to being there.
mack--coming on right now. Not spending time with hubby because he is watching a booooooooring show. In bed. In the dark. Which will surely put me to sleep, and it's only eight thirty, so I resist!
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