Lazy Navy Recruiters Pale In Comparison To The Army Recruiters I Dealt With, Your Thoughts?

AGREED...i'm not going to say that all navy recruiters are "lazy" or whatever, because that would be false, because i have never met all the navy recruiters...and probably never will but this is MY experience... i was in the navy DEP for about 6 months...at our DEP meetings...we went bowling and to applebees to drink...mind you there are all these overweight/ underage kids who need to PT and who are leaving for basic in a month drinking should not be what they are doing...I actually left the navy and joined the marines and the DEP program there is a WORLD of difference PT 2 times a week. we have drill instructors coming in and giving us a "taste" of what book camp is going to be like. we have functions were the county will get together and drill like crazy, a lot of preparation. My father was upset that i "jumped ship" he said that the navy would have more to offer, but i want to be a marine...i always did i just was being a little ***** and chose to do the easier thing. but i'm like you, i want the discipline of the marine corps...and they're so bada$s. i know so many marines and spent so much time in lejeune i knew more about USMC than i did about the Navy... me and the marine corps were meant to be.

I think that you just had the unfortunate luck to get some lazy recruiters. Now i personally haven't joined the Navy, but my brother was a navy nuke for 15 years. His entire enlistment process was more like the Army recruiters. In fact the Navy recruiters that he dealt with were offen more on top of things than my brother, who dealt with everything on a very timely manner. They even managed too get some pretty messed up legal stuff waived and taken care of, and that which couldn't be waived, was taken care of in ways that still allowed him to get into the Navy promptly. But I am curious about the culinary stuff. My brother ALWAYS complained about that, saying that it was just an easy way of making it up the ranks. Also according to my father (ret. air force) all the other branches, get cooks by repremanding the soldiers (like the old days when you had to peel potatos as a punishment) except today they become cooks. Like i said though, i am not military, only had a good example of the military life (really close with my brother)

I know this scenario too well. I joined the Navy first and went through the MEPS process and all. I had a ship date and everything but starting thinking about the USMC. I decided I want to be a grunt and told the recruiter. When you're in the DEP you're not obligated to go. I told the recruiter and after offering E-3 with a college fund and me turning it down he got pissed and said when I get the official separation orders i would officially free to do whatever i wanted. If you haven't even gone to MEPS, you're straight. You'll just see a pissed off sailor, which isn't very intimidating. J/k. But seriously.

Do yourself a favor and do not become a cook in the Army. You will not be used in Iraq as a cook because it is all contracted out to KBR. I don't even see why you would want to join the military to be a cook. Do something that will at least pay off in the future because no one but McDonalds is going to care if you were a cook in the Army.

I just wanted to respond and say that I am SO sorry your experience with the recruiters was such a bad one. My husband just got finished serving as a Marine Corps recruiter for the past 3 years, and it was one of the hardest periods he has served in the USMC so far.

While he was a recruiter I saw many that worked thier absolute tail off for thier poolees-------and at the opposite end of the spectrum I saw many more who, as my husband would say. should "pound sand". I am glad you finally found some guys that WOULD work for you. They really aren't all bad---Hell, my husband spent 2 months getting up at 5 am to pick up this guy & work out with him so he could pass the fit rep.

Hope everything works out for you!

Working with the Navy i have had some really bad experiences but they have some good people in their ranks(Duh)

If you are signing up to be a cook i have some bad news the Army rarely uses cooks to do the job they signed up for

i do not know that for sure but KBR and PAE do the cooking over here and in the field we do are own cooking to save Per Diem lol Good luck

OK, so, not everyone is a professional.

That's life you will meet those people no matter where you go or what you do.

Good part is if you keep your nose clean you will go far and those unprofessional individuals will soon be subordinate to you and the rank you hold.

Bad part? Once you do outrank them, it is your job to help them grow and be more professional....

Call it LEADERSHIP!

Thanks for serving

(army was my first choice) no my army recruter is pretty cool and does his job but alot of my friends in NJROTC say that the air force recruter doesnt do his job at all though