With six months left on my Inactive Ready Reserve contract, I received a gem of an email from some recruiting sergeant. Seems to me they’re getting desperate. I really don’t appreciate subtly veiled threats to try and coerce me back in, at least it didn’t work on me but they’re trawling trying to scare people back in so someone can make their monthly quota. Just part of the new fear culture I guess. Here’s an interesting email:
“Good day ****t,
My records reflect that you are not currently serving in a United States Army Reserve unit right now. The reason why I am contacting you today is to find out why and can I assist you getting back into one. I show that you still have mandatory obligation left to the Inactive Ready Reserves. If you choose to do so I can easily assist you getting into a unit of your choice. If a rotation comes around to be deployed then the Human Resources Command in St. Louis will put you into the unit they need you to go in and not unit you might want to go in. Please contact me at your earliest convenience and we can discuss options. Also if you have a valid reason why your not in a unit or my records read incorrectly then please contact me as well so I can update.
Thanks I am looking forward to hearing back from you!!”
P.S. There is an affiliation bonus for qualified soldiers. Contact me for further details!
SFC Ch*****s
US Army Recruiter
(C)(*****3
(F)(****4
Notice how I must explain a “valid reason” to this SFC why I am not in a reserve unit and why not. The answer is that I am in the IRR and I don’t need to give ANYONE a reason why I am not in an active unit. Then there is the fear factor of HRC St. Louis deploying me. Even this recent IRR call-up didn’t take people in their first or last year, his records surely reflect how much time I have left. Lastly his records should indicate that my MOS was 18B, Special Forces Weapons Sergeant, which is only a National Guard or Active Duty job, not the US Army Reserves. My IRR records reflect that I am living in Germany, obviously he missed that one too. Lastly, if he wanted to sound scary with authority, the least he could do is run a grammar check as is “why you’re not in a…” as oppose to “why your not in a”. Dear SFC Dinglenuts, ‘your’ is possessive, ‘you’re’ is as in ‘you are’.
Then there is the bribery attempt at the end with a “bonus” – whoo hoo!
On the surface perhaps it’s not so menacing, but read between the lines. The military is getting desperate as never before have any recruiters gone to the IRR pool as they prefer getting fresh meat from high schools.
Parents, keep an eye out for things like this, teenagers don’t always catch these things or are sometimes timid when it comes to telling these people to f*k off.
Just thought I’d share, peace.
Why is all of this bold faced?????
you had open ended <strong> tags.
oh, thanks Booman.
so good to see you posting here again. Tell the mofos to take a hike, put it where the sun don’t shine and all that rot. God, I hate how desperate they are. It scares me. My solution is draft every Repug. That will shut them up!
hey aloha,
yea, not posting so much. Got a new job as a dramaturg for 3 semi-prof. theaters in the area, plus to diss research keeps me busy. Just pulled off the premiere of Genet’s The Maids last weekend. It keeps me busy but it is so rewarding as opposed to jerk-off above.
I am tempted to sign his email up to every progressive/activist/porn site I can find…. nah, I won’t stoop to their level of evilness.
Oh that would be so evil…don’t you dare do it…awww…go ahead!! Have a great day sweetie!
Please keep us posted how this does or doesn’t esculate.
(((((JD)))))
I will Janet, but I doubt it will go further. I just wanted to give the community a personal example other than the news reports as it always its home more when something affects a member of any community.
Nevertheless, I spoke with my branch officer last week in fact, after the Marine thing. He told me not to worry about anything, with a 60% VA disability that could go higher after it’s adjudicated, just send the paperwork in IF I get a notice and I won’t even have to show up, I’ll be automatically exempt – which makes me even more angry with this numbnuts above and his “panic” tactics.
I’ll keep you wrapped up in pink thoughts 🙂
My Vet is awaiting a “new law” that will do away with the term limits of the IR and just recall them all back. He has a disability from service … but he has to go back to the VA. Seems he’s losing more and more bone mass and cartilege. At first we thought the cart. was sports related or maybe it’s sports initiated… but others from the Gulf are getting the same ailments. He can still play hockey and surf… but he doesn’t know what is going on with his body you know. And when you learn from others who aren’t as active as you are that they have same ailments… you begin to wonde.r
Also the autistic children issue… so many we know have autistic children. Alarming rate actually.
Anyways… don’t let them get away with trying to intimidate you. We’re behind and beside you.
A lot of us stopped wondering in the 90’s, it was pretty obvious within the military circles. It’s really a matter of 1) they don’t scientifically know what it is (I mean figuring it out according to scientific research methods) because it is so vague, and 2) economically it would be devasting because of the compensation to so many people…they just wouldn’t have the funding for their missile defense program. Er, no, they would take it out of social security or some other socialist program they’re trying to gid rid off. And 3) very bad political image juju. It’s just easier to sweep it under the rug and ignore it.
But the question remains. We have service members from the first Gulf expedition suffering…how many Iraqi’s from that time have this? The DU has been in their backyard, literally, for some years now. That’s one WMD in Iraq that they definately don’t want to find!
And now, with this current expedition? Gosh, I feel like that’s a commentary that only Arthur Gilroy could do justice to.
(ugh! I hate rumsfeld, I can’t even use the word “gosh” anymore without images of that buffoon entering my mind, ugh!)
else once said “If you ain’t paranoid, you ain’t paying attention!”
Hey JD, nice to hear from you and what a crock of shit that email is-pretty sad try to make it sound like he really cares about you while basically threatening you at the same time-plus as you said at least get the grammar right you asshole.
Hi Ink, good to hear from you too. I hammered the grammar just because it goes to show, and I don’t mean just here, but really overall, that the ones who are bullies and radicals of the right, are really uneducated. I don’t mean this particular NCO who sent me the email, but as a <gasp> generalization. Brown shirts who roamed the streets here in the 20s were highly uneducated too, give them a uniform and a false sense of belonging, power, and purpose… well the F-word is floating around these days, coming right out of the Republicans own mouths, what more can I say? We all know that whatever they, believe the opposite because that is where the truth lies.
BTW, Ink, keep up the work on N’Oleans, your one of my main sources of information for the tragedy there. As I said, I don’t get to post much these days but I do read.
Peace
Hey JD…darn…hate to disabuse you of the idea that it is me doing such great diaries on NO’s but that honor belongs to Blksista, dada and a few others.
Speaking of the F word-ha-I tone down my postings here(usually)as I am a great user of that word as an adjective for just about everything.
Oh I read their stuff with pleasure too and they keep me very well informed, but I could’ve sworn I was reading yours as well… I’ve been reading so much I must be confused, hope I’m not confused on my doctoral exams….
OH MY! I got a reply:
“Thanks for the quick response and feedback. I wish you good luck with all future endeavors!!”
quick reply and FEEDBACK? lol! a quick lash with a tongue as sharp as a razor more like it! LOL!
Hey JD. What I cant understand is why would they call a peace warrior like you. 🙂
Hope you are doing good and enjoying your new theater carrer.
BTW, your favourite team is playing on Sunday in England, with all the new kids!!
Argentine vs. England…hmmm, sounds fun, I’ll be watching.
Oh, off topic. I was wondering… I have an interest in looking into Brecht’s influence on Argentine playwrites, as I know there is some. I am particularly interested in Argentine playwrites who wrote about and during the Dirty Wars, perhaps even martyred. South American literature is not my field but I have a feeling it is a goldmine (er…perhaps wrong word considering the history) of great literature. If you have any recommendations of playwrites and drama from that era, I would like to ask you to send me an email of a few that I can start looking into. It may turn into a post-doc research project at some time.
-thanks
They are playing in England but they are playing Brazil. It is going to be a great game.
There is one book Which I loved. It was writern by an american who lived there. It was his doctorate book, and he wrote it in the magic realism style.(I frogot the name of it but I have it somewhere. Send me your address and I will mail it to you. If not I can scan it and send it by e-mail, which would be faster. I will look into some more writers.
email is in my sig block. Please don’t put yourself out too much, but thanks for your help.
Don’t worry about me. This is a pleasure really. I already found the book: Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thorton. i am sure you will feel identified with it because if involves theatre. And that is all I’m going to say. I willsend you bathes of it because of the uploading time. I will have to see what is easier to read, if in photograpfh format or PDF. I will start tonight. Enjoy!
Rereading this gave a wonderful sense of calm. Thank you for the compliment. Peace warrior is really a wonderful compliment, because in reality, REAL warriors want peace above all as they have actually experienced the horror of the alternative.
Hey JD, I know just what y ou are saying here. My IRR was up in 1992. Anyhow, was so glad to hear from you and hope you are doing well. Stay in touch with us here…hugs
Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be writers of obnoxious recruiting letters. (Daddies too.)