Very true, but then perhaps recruiters should tell them that up front, recruiters fill Nuke wanna be's head's with thoughts of sugar plum fairies, commands tell them that more quals will get them good jobs outside and last time I checked recruitment and retention is part of the Navy.
I disagree,...
No one who comes to these boards and reviews the typical perception of a recruiter can come away with the sugar plum and fairy visual,...
That same warning is found on dozens of websites related to recruiting and enlistment,...
It was the same warning I gave my own son before he enlisted 14 years ago,...
It is the same warning my son and all my children were given by their high school guidance counselors, I suspect it is the default warning of the NEA,...
It is the same warning (or informed decision advice if you prefer) that pretty much every ex-military parent I have ever spoke with about this topic gives to their children considering enlistment,...
and yet,...
they still choose to smoke cigarettes,...
they still choose to have sex, unprotected or otherwise,...
they still choose to drive without a seatbelt,...
they still choose to experiment with controlled substances,...
and they still choose to let the recruiter play to their ego and become 6YO's in the face of all "informed decision" advice to the contrary,...
I've seen two broad category types of ex-nukes here and elsewhere;
whiney bastards and mature adults,...
some whiney bastards are technical whizz kids but still whiney bastards,...
some mature adults are lower 50% but still mature adults,...
at the end of the day it's their choice,...
own it and live with it,...
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