Recruiters have quotas. They will do what they need to do to fill their quotas. In other words if you ask them about a program that does not fill their quota the BS component goes way up and the helpful component goes way down. In egregious cases they can be brought up on charges if they are found to have deliberately lied about certain things, unfortunately that usually requires witnesses other than a boot in boot camp stuttering about what he/she had been told.
I caught my son's AF recruiter hinting strongly that he bend the truth on some of his medical history. (Forget to mention a separated shoulder and also that he took ritalin very briefly during a period when he and his younger brother were at each others necks constantly). I ripped the Recruiter a new one and told my son to be extremely truthful on the physical history. 1. If he lied about the shoulder and he reinjured it any decent ortho MD would spot the previous injury and upon comparing the physical history in his records would find the omission. 2. Likewise if he was caught lying about the ritalin, the ommission would be found on his clearance application, guess what would happen. That took a waiver to get in, but it only took a month.
I had had to deal with kids that got lied to badly and they don't make good Soldiers or Sailors or Marines. Not the least of which, even in the Reserves, it screws with your unit morale and retention rates.
Theoretically Recruiters and contracts are reviewed at the Mepps but that is a somewhat incestuous relationship.
Don't omit or lie about anything on your applications. If it is found out you now have a falsified enlistment, which can get you thrown out, screw up a clearance. So what if you have to get a medical waiver and it takes you some extra time, who do you want to get screwed? you or the Recruiter who falls short on a quota that they would have filled by you and you get screwed.
The Marine was very straightfoward, I wonder if it was because on the Guest and Parent trip to MCRD San Diego, he saw the base sticker on my truck or that he saw I had an old buddy talk with the Colonel from Recruiting Command. We had several mutual friends and had actually sailed together to Thailand 20 years before. I guess the recruiter figured that a No BS routine was appropriate.
But when I was at Lackland, there were several kids in my sons platoon that were very unhappy about the promised schools they weren't going to get.
You think any of the folks now deployed are getting free time to study?