Parents who signed the request for the military not to contact their kids

[hatredisnotavalue]

I am still getting stuff! For not one, but both kids. I could understand if they missed my senior and continued to send her stuff. But my junior son received recruitment material this week. I sent in the signed paper to the guidance office to have them both taken off of the contact list. But his week, they both got stuff. Have any of you had the same experience? And who do I call to take us off the list?

[ingac70]

1. Did your kids take the ASVAB?

If so, then you are stuck with the pestering.

[hatredisnotavalue]

7. No n/t

[ingac70]

15. They got put on the mailing list somehow....

I'd have a discussion with their school(s) if I were you. That is the only way the recruiters got the info.

[hatredisnotavalue]

16. But I signed a document not to contact the kids.

[ingac70]

18. Thats what they TOLD you it was....

[silverweb]

2. Get used to it.

My daughter graduated from high school two years ago and I also had signed the do-not-contact thing via the school, but she's still routinely getting recruitment information in the mail. At least they don't call anymore.

I'm not sure there is anything you can do at this point to stop it. They do whatever they want, as one recruiter flat-out told me on the telephone.

:shrug:

[ingac70]

3. What they need is a good cussing from your daughter.

:evilgrin:

Either that or tell them she has a physical condition that makes her unable, that's what my sister did. Of course, that was peace time!

[Dhampir Kampf]

9. Or tell them she's gay. That'll solve it.

[AtomicKitten]

19. My son graduated from HS two years ago.

But he's in a 4-year college now. He's received NOTHING since I signed the opt out form at his high school a few years back.

I wonder if your daughter is in college now or working? Just trying to figure out why they are coming after her and not my son.

[HockeyMom]

4. They never stop

I signed those forms. Weeks after she turned 18 as a Senior, the calls started. They wouldn't take no for an answer. It was only until SHE treatend him with harassment, that the calls stopped.

Fast forward 4 years. We just got a couple of calls these past few months. My daughter is now a Senior in College and hundreds of miles away.

Apparently, they NEVER give up.

[liberal N proud]

5. I just send the stuff back to them, with "Not my daughter!" written on it.

Email and paper, anything with a postage paid return, goes right back to them.

[hatredisnotavalue]

6. So it was a scam signing that document

They will continue to contact my kids, even though I made a formal request for them not to?

[alfredo]

10. Now you are on their "list."

It could be they don't consider mail as a contact, you know, like waterboarding is not torture.

[cmd]

8. They stopped calling when I told them my daughter was majoring in

women's studies. The recruiter's reply was, "I don't think she would fit in the Army." They never called back.

[alfredo]

11. Hmmm? I guess a family with a son could say he is studying to be

an interior decorator.

[Dhampir Kampf]

12. Heh, which is even better than what I suggested..

..making them ASSUME, that he's gay, even though that profession doesn't MAKE you, they'll just assume.

[alfredo]

13. I'd do it just to hear the reaction of the recruiter.

[ingac70]

14. Or going to cosmetology school!

:evilgrin:

[NanceGreggs]

17. Don't know if this will help anyone else re phone calls, but ...

I found this message on a board on another site while browsin' the internetz one night. I'm paraphrasing from memory, but this was the gist of it:

A girl (senior in HS, just turned 18) was getting nightly phone calls from a recruiter. No matter how many times she poltitely tried to explain that she wasn't interested, they persisted.

So her father decided to handle the situation. The next night, he answered the the phone when the recruiter called, and he told him the following -- this is the young lady's version of the discussion, which, of course, she only overheard her father's side of:

"No, my daughter is not interested in enlisting. But I know of someone -- actually, TWO girls, who are really anxious to sign up. Their names? Do you have a pen handy?

Okay. Their names are Jenna Bush and Barbie Bush -- twins, actually. Their address is 1600 -- yeah, that's 1-6-0-0, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington D.C. - I don't know the zip code, but you can probably look it up.

Now, the beauty part is that their parents are both REALLY pro-Iraq War, so you can count on some encouragement on that end.

Jeez, I can't BELIEVE you don't already have them on your to-call list, because I understand they're really gung-ho."

He carried on like this until the recruiter at the other end HUNG UP on him - and that was the last phone call they ever got.