Yeah. Right. SUUUUUUURE.

[theweaselking]

US Army recruiters *still* lying to applicants, telling them that nobody is going to Iraq and that they can quit any time they want.

Once again, we have a phenomenon found *everywhere*, in *every case* where it's looked for, in an organisation where slavish devotion to orders is instilled and prized, described as a "few bad apples" acting in ways they've been told not to.

Comments

[paoconnell.livejournal.com]

Nothing new here. Really. Military recruiting lies have been going on for a very long time--like before the Civil War.

[spartonian.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure which is worse... recruiters feeding this crap to recruits or the recruits actually believing it.

[itlandm.livejournal.com]

So you think this is evolution in action?

[torrain.livejournal.com]

(I vote for option A, myself.)

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that so long as there have been recruiters, there have been people lying to recruits.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Although there was a time when lying wasn't really necessary, all you did was get someone passed-out drunk and then carry him on board ship -- where he couldn't get away any more.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Although there was a time when lying wasn't really necessary, all you did was get someone passed-out drunk and then carry him on board ship -- where he couldn't get away any more.

Speaking of which, I think there's reasonable evidence for recruiter lies in the 16th and 17th centuries, and I have no doubt whatsoever that if you dig deep enough into the surviving roman literature you'll find the same things.

"Join the army, see new places, meet new people", as the roman legionnaires always say after Asterix and Obelix have turned thenm into pulp.