D_Raay
05-12-2005, 12:05 PM
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3176619
Already failing to fill its monthly recruiting quotas in the face of the Iraq war, the Army will suspend enlistment efforts for one day later this month to address a rash of incidents in which recruiters harassed prospective soldiers, an official said Tuesday.
On Friday, May 20, the Army will observe a "values stand down" during which recruiters will be told the right and wrong way to pursue people considering enlisting, said an Army official who asked not to be identified.
"It is a reaction to a combination of events in various cities across the country. No one event made us do this," the official said.
But an incident in Houston in which a recruiter threatened to call police to arrest a man resisting recruiting efforts was among the incidents that triggered the suspension, the official said.
In late April, Army Staff Sgt. Thomas Kelt left a voice mail message on the cell phone of Christopher Monarch, 20, of Spring, telling him to show up at the Greenspoint recruiting office by 2 p.m. or a warrant would be issued for his arrest, according to Monarch and an Army official.
Monarch said he didn't receive the message until after the designated time. "I was scared," he said.
He said he had not made an appointment to meet the recruiter and was not interested in joining the military.
Monarch said he called Kelt the next day to clear up the matter. Kelt told him threatening to issue an arrest warrant was a "marketing technique," according to Monarch, a version of the story the Army confirmed.
"What the recruiter did in Houston was inappropriate. He lost his cool and said some things that shouldn't have been said," the Army official said. "It was similar to a spike in problems we've seen across the country. So there was a decision to take a day to address that, to reaffirm Army values, and the recruiting values the Army teaches."
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Referring to what I highlighted in red - How is it possible to lose your cool calling someone's cell phone and leaving a message trying to recruit this kid?-
Was it because he was frustrated that he was a bad recruiter and decided to take it out on this particular kid by lying and using scare tactics? Marketing technique my ass- No one accepts responsibility the way they should, they dance around it with disingenuous rhetoric like that.
Already failing to fill its monthly recruiting quotas in the face of the Iraq war, the Army will suspend enlistment efforts for one day later this month to address a rash of incidents in which recruiters harassed prospective soldiers, an official said Tuesday.
On Friday, May 20, the Army will observe a "values stand down" during which recruiters will be told the right and wrong way to pursue people considering enlisting, said an Army official who asked not to be identified.
"It is a reaction to a combination of events in various cities across the country. No one event made us do this," the official said.
But an incident in Houston in which a recruiter threatened to call police to arrest a man resisting recruiting efforts was among the incidents that triggered the suspension, the official said.
In late April, Army Staff Sgt. Thomas Kelt left a voice mail message on the cell phone of Christopher Monarch, 20, of Spring, telling him to show up at the Greenspoint recruiting office by 2 p.m. or a warrant would be issued for his arrest, according to Monarch and an Army official.
Monarch said he didn't receive the message until after the designated time. "I was scared," he said.
He said he had not made an appointment to meet the recruiter and was not interested in joining the military.
Monarch said he called Kelt the next day to clear up the matter. Kelt told him threatening to issue an arrest warrant was a "marketing technique," according to Monarch, a version of the story the Army confirmed.
"What the recruiter did in Houston was inappropriate. He lost his cool and said some things that shouldn't have been said," the Army official said. "It was similar to a spike in problems we've seen across the country. So there was a decision to take a day to address that, to reaffirm Army values, and the recruiting values the Army teaches."
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Referring to what I highlighted in red - How is it possible to lose your cool calling someone's cell phone and leaving a message trying to recruit this kid?-
Was it because he was frustrated that he was a bad recruiter and decided to take it out on this particular kid by lying and using scare tactics? Marketing technique my ass- No one accepts responsibility the way they should, they dance around it with disingenuous rhetoric like that.