The number ONE MOST IMPORTANT thing you must do before joining ANY of the armed forces!
Howdy friends twens teenagers and young adults, and kids my favorite -- the kids!
I want to
tell you the most important thing you
must know, and you must do, before you join any
services.
I'm talking about the enlisted
ranks (probably not for officers) it's called a guaranteed job.
You must get a "guaranteed job" before you join any military services: army, navy, air force, or marines.
Now I've heard that the marines don't
have this, but the army, and the navy, and the air force
definitely do.
As a matter of fact if you
go to your air force recruiter you can even ask them for
aircraft mechanic: "crew chief 43131".
So you must get a guaranteed job, because what happens if you don't get a
guaranteed job?
Well let me tell you a story, a long time ago...
I went in the air force in the 80s, (that's how
old i am,) in the 1980s I joined the air force, and
in boot camp i met a guy who was complaining:
He said, "I have a
degree in architecture and you know what they made me?!"
I said, "No
what did they make you?"
"They made me a cook!"
And I told him, "Well didn't you get a guaranteed job?"
He said, "No. What's that?"
He had a bad recruiter!
So kids, when you go to your recruiter, you tell him, "I want a guaranteed job."
And if the recruiter says, "Oh we
can't get you one."
THEN YOU WALK OUT!
...and that's that!
You don't have to join, and you do not
join, unless you get that guaranteed job!
Because you know what you get to do if
you don't get a guaranteed job? -- you get to be a cook!
Why?
Because they
ALWAYS NEED COOKS!
Nobody wants to be a
cook; so they have a permanent shortage of cooks all the
time.
So what happens if you don't get a guaranteed job? -- you get to be the cook, and you don't want to be the cook do you?
So let me tell you what else is going to happen:
It's a two-phase process:
(1) You go
to the recruiter and you sign some papers and then you (2) go
to the military enlistment processing station (MEPS) I think it's still in San Diego in California.
But the point is; you go there and then
you're going to sit down with the guy
behind the computer, and then he's going
to look at all your stuff that you got at the recruiting station
in your hometown, and then he's going to
say "congratulations we've got your guaranteed job in six
months" or whatever months. Then you're okay.
But if he says "oh well
we can't get you a guaranteed job," then you get up and you walk out!
You're not in the air force or any services yet my friend -- even when you're at the second phase at the MEPS!
You're not in until you raise your hand and you take the oath!
But before you do
that you've done a physical
at the MEPS station, and you've talked to
the guy behind the computer, and it doesn't matter what you signed at
the recruiters station in your hometown, I don't care
what you signed there, you don't get that guaranteed job at MEPS; then you stand up and you
walk out!
--doesn't matter what you signed; you're not even in the forces yet, not until you raise that hand, and take that oath.
So remember that kids, and anybody
thinking of joining the forces: if you get there at the MEPS and
they can't get your guaranteed job, you're not in.
You just walk out! - don't
matter what you signed, you just leave because you don't want to
be a cook do you?
NO!
All right my friends, so that's the
most important thing that
anybody needs to know to join any
service.
If you like this video please
share it because it's really important. I don't
want any of you joining the services--getting stuck as a
cook! okay, alright my friends, please share the
video, and...
I look forward to seeing YOU at the top! {hearty salute}
