3-Year AGR Recruiting Tours Available

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3-Year AGR Recruiting Tours Available
December 24, 2008
Army News Service|by Andrea Wales

ST. LOUIS, MO. -- While private industry lays off workers, the “Recruit the Recruiter” team at U.S. Army Human Resources Command-St. Louis continues to hire Reserve Soldiers and retirees for three-year active-duty tours as recruiters.

The benefits of becoming a recruiter are many.

“Fewer deployments, home in the evening, no guard duty, educational benefits while you’re on recruiting duty,” said Sgt. 1st Class Eugene Demery of the Raleigh (N.C.) Recruiting Battalion.

Unlike a Soldier deployed overseas, a recruiter sees his loved ones every day and has the opportunity to actively participate in family and community life. Many AGR recruiters are able to remain in the same community for a number of years, and serving in their own hometown is a possibility. Positions are located throughout the Continental United States, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawaii and American Samoa.

Those entering the program become Active Guard Reserve Soldiers -- that is, they become Reserve Soldiers on active-duty orders for three years, with a chance to extend. AGR recruiters are entitled to the same benefits as Regular Army recruiters, including the coveted Recruiter Ring. They receive active ID cards, full medical and dental coverage, and full pay and allowances, plus Special Duty Assignment Pay of $450 per month.


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[MADem]

1. Ha ha ha ha ha.....!!!!!

Home in the evening, my ass! This is some of the funniest propaganda I have read in awhile!

"Coveted recruiter ring? " Is that what we called the Gold Toilet Seat, a crusty golden gee-gaw that encircled one's "I got fucked and drew orders to recruiting" pin?

I was in senior leadership in that game, and I rarely got home before eight--and usually, it was closer to ten. I worked weekends and saw less of my family then than I did on other "shore based/INCONUS" assignments.

And my subordinates worked a damned sight harder than I did. Some of them had territory that was ghastly-huge.

If you think selling used cars is fun, you'll have a blast doing military recruiting! It's the sleaziest, most soul-robbing job in the non-deployed military. They pick the people with the best records and the most integrity (career-trending, with the most to lose, too) for the job, and it's a real crucible for some of them--some won't lie or cheat, others stoop to it.