Or it was somebody not wanting the recruiter at their house so they put your address down

Or a sense of humor in a friend to get a rise out of you

 

Or a sense of humor in a friend to get a rise out of you

By the paranoia shown in his post, especially the thread title, this actually seems like a reasonable theory.

I would, lol.

 

Wrong address maybe?

 

Couldn't be that. Are you out of your mind?

 

Reading way too much into it. He was a recruiter looking for somebody else. Of course since he was there he still was trying to do his job.

 

Doesn't strike me as suspicious in the least. If the name he gave really did sound like gibberish, I'd second the opinion of PLA, who suggested someone was playing a joke on you by filling out a form with your address.

 

A form would probably not warrant a home visit. Unless recruiters have changed quite a bit, they would not physically go to an individual's home without a good 'bit on the line' else it is not worth the time.

 

you should look at the various jobs you could do.
you pick your job, they dont do it for you.

perhaps you should look into the admin field if you want to sit around

 

Having been both a grunt and an office pogue...I can tell you, AC in the summer and heat in the winter beats heat in the summer and cold in the winter.

When I became a personnel officer, I only had to send one private to an infantry company for a month to motivate the crew. When he came back and described his miserable life during that time, none of them wanted to go. One only needs to be without the comforts a short time under the right conditions to learn to appreciate them. I sent him in July to an infantry company scheduled for desert training. Being a private and a not good at his MOS, insured he wouldn't be pampered.

One doesn't need to train at being miserable.

 

I'm in agreement here. Recruiters aren't door to door salesmen. They attend special events, visit high schools and will stop by the house to give you a ride to the airport.

He had the wrong address...

 

I'm in agreement here. Recruiters aren't door to door salesmen. They attend special events, visit high schools and will stop by the house to give you a ride to the airport.

Mine offered to come talk with my parents. :

 

My recruiter came to my house..

But generally that's only after you've gotten pretty far into the process.

I'd say he just had the wrong adress , no one's going to Shanghai you into the army.

That said if you've ever talked to a recruiter your in the database. Hell I got a phone call from a Navy recruiter last year about if I was still interested in joining the military j was like lady joined the army and I'm already out even irr was up and i still get wananjoin reserve mail lol...

 

That said if you've ever talked to a recruiter your in the database. Hell I got a phone call from a Navy recruiter last year about if I was still interested in joining the military j was like lady joined the army and I'm already out even irr was up and i still get wananjoin reserve mail lol...

This has happened to me a few times as well. They must be desperate lol.

 

Or they just have a ****ty database that's poorly organised lol. With a 40k personal drawdown I don't think there hurting for bodies

 

It was Federal Agents scoping you out as a subversive operative.

Jungle Work

 

He would have panicked had what happened last month to my neighbor happened to him.

A dark S.U.V. with government plates pulled up to his place and a guy in plain clothes asks for him by name, but used the title ret. Commander.

From the neighbor's story it appears to have been a NCIS agent, probably wanting a statement on something or doing a background check on somebody. But definitely a case of mistaken identity.

By the OP, he would have freaked on that one.

In all fairness to him, a lot of people would get paranoid over that one.

 

As a former recruiter (in the days before the internet), I would get all sorts of those "send me info cards" from magazines, other career fairs and other sources. And yes, those were controlled and you had to attempt contact. If no telephone number is listed, you're knocking on doors.

And yes it sucked.....couldn't wait to get back to the infantry. :

 

But then what about the hot sister of the recruit that answered the door seeing a man in uniform?...hmmm?..was it really that bad? :

Or lonely single mom..

 

Lol if your thay worried don't answer your door to strangers

I never answer my door unarmed to strangers, that is asking for a problem I do not need.

 

That in itself could be considered a form of paranoia.

Not saying that it's wrong or not being cautious, that's exactly why people in isolated areas have a reputation for having a loaded shotgun behind the door.

 

Lol if your thay worried don't answer your door to strangers

According to another neighbor, that's not the first time that vehicle was seen in the neighborhood. Apparently, they were stalking my neighbor, just adds more to the paranoia. LOL.

In reference to your post, not answering your door would make paranoid people even more paranoid. Unless you have a reason to be paranoid then grab your BOB and head for the hills, LOL.

 

GOLD BADGES showed up for something I bought off ebay.....

I bought some swamp cabbage off ebay for my aquarium (out of California).

Didn't think much about it as A) it was in an indoor closed system & B) I've seen swamp cabbage all over FL all my life & didn't know it to be invasive.

Something like 6 months later, my doorbell rings & I open the door to 2 people w/ USDA gov't style ball hats, dark suits & GOLD badges hanging on their lapel pockets wanting to talk to me about something I imported from China.

Now, by this point, the swamp cabbage had been eaten by my fish & 1 or 2 died since the water pH was off. And, I hadn't ordered any plants from China, so I couldn't figure out what they were talking about --- oh yeah, they were calling it something like "water spinach". At 1st I had no clue what they were talking about, but after confirming my user name etc.... something finally clicked & I told them about the stuff I bought for my aquarium. They asked if they could come in & see it & I said they could see the aquarium, but that the plants had been eaten by the fish. It turned out that by scientific name, if I'd ordered what I knew to be swamp cabbage I would have been fine, but the 2 plants are similar in looks but truly different species & the "spinach" one is very bad for US waters (messes w/ pH & something about being toxic to some fish & birds in the US).

Thank goodness for me, that I keep digital copies of almost 2 years of online purchases & I was able to pull up the receipt & ebay purchase notice & SHOW THAT THE SELLER I BOUGHT IT FROM WAS IN CALIFORNIA.

How they tracked from China to CA to FL; who knows, but it was kind of freaky.

I must say, the lady (obviously the lead agent) was polite & not trying to be too intimidating. She did make sure I understood how much trouble can be caused by bringing in invasive species & I got into a conversation about being a lifelong fisherman & how I've seen hydrilla blooms kill out native aquatic plants, making a wasteland of some of the best fishing holes I've known. I told her of stopping people from dumping their aquariums into the local retention system (fish, plants & all) and trying to teach them why they shouldn't (actually taking all the plants & fish myself to make sure they didn't get dumped). It wasn't a bad experience, but again, kind of scary how they tracked it. Also kind of sad that it took 6 months.... if I had put it in some outdoor pond, little sprout pieces could have long been carried off by herons, ducks & other birds that tend to get into koi ponds.

 

White shirt, black pants, white hat. ( was it a slit cap?) and the card reads word for word. " staff Sargent of the U. S. Army "
The clothing sounds like a cooks uniform I haven't seen anyone wearing their fruit salad on cooks whites.
I don't see a recruiter wearing a cooks uniform. Being summer class "B"s light green short sleeve shirt, dark green pants, and a dark green slit cap with a unit crest on it.

 

Actually, I believe the greens are totally phased out. Now it would be a white short-sleeve shirt. Since the card said SSG, there would be black shoulder boards on the epaulets of trhe shirt with gold SSG rank on them. Ribbons can be worn on left side.

Name tag on right side with DUI. Trousers would be blue. Since the guy was supposedly a SSG, the trousers would have the gold stripe on the seam.

I have zero clue as to the current headgear regs. It's should be either the beret or the service cover but that has changed and I haven't kept up with it.

 

I can understand the paranoia over that; however, maybe you're over thinking it? Idk, I wasn't there. Maybe there was something to it- I don't know.

 

Don't open the door...be afraid...be very afraid...there really ARE monsters//

 

It was a Jade Helm scouting mission.

 

Army recruiter classifies as government agent?

 

I could see that

 

I have a pretty surefire way of getting rid of idling vehicles in front of the house.

I send my husband out.

He is blind and overtly otherwise disabled. He staggers out to the vehicle and starts feeling it with his hands.

Most "normals" are really weird about blind people touching their stuff. They don't want him getting his blind crippled mojo all over their stuff.

They always leave very quickly.

Failing that, I would head outside with a few Bibles and offer to talk about Jesus.

 

Failing that, I would head outside with a few Bibles and offer to talk about Jesus.

Frustrating door to door types with Bible proselytizing just to chase them off must be a sin somehow.

But I believe God has a wicked sense of humor and will ignore that modest transgression. :

 

I thought this was a joke and the op was going to say the mailman knocked on his door

 

Dude if you're really concerned about it go by his office and ask for a brochure. Maybe you will feel a little better knowing if he works there for real.

Then when he asks for you contact info give him some gibberish name and a fake address so the cycle of paranoia won't be broken.

 

It's called a home visit it's what is done when someone requests information but doesn't provide a phone number or you cannot get a hold of someone by their phone number

 

At least that's what they SAY :upsidedown:

 

Well it is what it is just trying to bring light to it unfortunately I am on recruiting duty for now so I know the lingo and all

 

Add-on about uniforms: They also will wear ACUs (everyone recognizes that camo that really isn't camo at all... )

Here's an example of both:

So anyone claiming to be a Army person should be in one of those.

But, stand by, because the Army is probably going to change their camo uniform very shortly. Can't say it's the wrong thing to do, but it's a millions and millions dollar change. They should attach the pay or pensions of the idiots who chose the ACU pattern.

 

he had on a dark grey beret cap, a white "dress" shirt, and grey pants (i believe they were a dark grey).....

he was not in ACU's


and to SSGNasty, the reason why i titled this thread with "government agent" is because he had government license plates, which would make him a government agent, correct?

 

If he was in a g-ride, he was a .gov employee. Not necessarily an "agent" in the narrow definition of the word.

I know of no agency that wears the uniform you state the guy wore. But I don't get out much these days so...