[Rinnwald]

Recruiting has always been considered a cush posting. I don’t think there are a lot of complainers.

[pepsionice]

I think prior to the 1980s...it was ‘cush’.

You have an assigned ‘number’ and your evaluations (getting promoted) are geared to making that number. Based on what I’ve read...no one is making their numbers...so this is driving the new strategy.

[13foxtrot]

Recruiting has always been considered a cush posting. I don’t think there are a lot of complainers.

Not really. Most soldiers hate it. It is soul crushing with rigid unreasonable quotas. Often considered a career ender.

Plus the family disruption right around the holidays -- it is making many submit their papers to get out.

[exDemMom]

Recruiting has always been considered a cush posting. I don’t think there are a lot of complainers.

I was assigned to assist a recruiter for a few weeks. It isn't something I would care to do again. It was very much like I imagine a telemarketing job would be like. Cold call a number, read a prepared script, and get turned down. Over and over. That's pretty hard, especially if one is strongly introverted.

All of those people suddenly being sent to recruiting school must have had someone recommend them for a recruiter position in their performance evaluation. Not just anyone can be a recruiter. I don't see how they would have been selected otherwise. It's just bad planning that led them to being ordered to turn up on such short notice. Bad planning reflective of disorder at the very top... like one would expect from a senile commander in chief.

[Thunder 6]

I'm guessing you never served in the army. Recruiting is a hard, thankless task that most NCO’s try to avoid like the plague. I've seen careers and marriages ended by the stresses of a posting to a recruiting billet. And, just because the army can order folks to move on a dime, doesn't mean it should. Real leadership would found a way to minimize or eliminate snatching NCO’s and families to a remote post in the middle of the school year. Try finding affordable housing and schools in the E-town area.

You can order them to report, but they just may vote with their feet when it comes time for Their reenlistment. Now you've lost a trained and experienced NCO.

We're eating our seed corn.