EX-44E3A beat me to the punch--100% agree with what he said
You come here as a recruiter. How can you possibly come here and rip on the very people you recruited? We're the problem? Wrong. You're the problem. You and every recruiter and officer like you who give us the line, "shut up and do what your supposed to and be grateful for the opportunity to do it because you don't have debt."
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Your job is to recruit. You get medals for getting signatures, not for getting quality people who made the right decision for themselves, so get off the high horse and actually address the comments made here. Don't lay the blame here. We're a little more experienced than the average joe you're talking to about your program.
Hello,
This is my second post under this username, (my old username was years ago while I was pre-med).
I found this forum again through doing a search due to my personal experiences with my AMEDD recruiter and OBLC and IRR and I really feel like I am being duped, and not for good reason at all.
I am not longer pre-med but in a MS in nursing program set to graduate this June with a generalist MS in Nursing and starting the 9 month program to Family Nurse Practitioner license.
Oh, I took my oath into the Army Nurse corps and "thought" I was going to OBLC this fall but...recruiter says, "complications". I also applied...venting here, hang on...as Active duty but, understand that I had to sign as reserve commission due to being in school.
Okay, so not sure why my recruiter had me take the ASVAB. He said to show that I would qualify as enlisted since I was going to be 41 at graduation and that I would be too old for AD, (since found out that AD for nurses is up to age 46). Recruiter also said if I failed NCLEX-RN I would have to go enlisted, no, I am not stupid, I don't think so. Then again, after funding my undergrad and now graduate school I'd better manage to "pass" NCLEX-RN but, if I fail, the Army will give three months to retry for three times. Then its either pass or be dismissed, not go enlisted.
So, since I am in limbo and not going to OBLC due to this "complication" he tells me of I wonder if I will ever get to OBLC or if I just stay on IRR forever?
Oh, student loans and all over over 145K for undergrad and graduate, (including FNP) so I did take the HPLRP but, when I have an addendum put into my contract due to changing my work history, (adding a year of RN work) and adding the FNP, I am going to ditch it, the three extra years for the dent in my loans isn't what I really wanted, would rather have a larger bonus payment.
Yet, now that my vent is over...nice to read you here and nice to join this forum.
MyrnaGen
p.s. who doe not understand what my recruiter is doing with my packet and contract??