Quoted: Rule number 1. Regardless of what anyone says to you, unless it is written in plain english on your contract, you will not get it. Before you sign read the contract. If it isnt what you want, dont sign, they will make the necessary changes.
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Get it in writing... If it's not in writing, and you sign, you're SOL.
If they hem & haw, "you can get that later after Basic...," get up and walk. It's you signing on the
dotted line for the next several years of your life, and they're blowing smoke up your posterior to get
another man on board.
You need to do what you want to do. Your recruiter might get his drawers in a knot if you tell him that
it's a no-go, and talk all kinds of trash about signing papers, and commitments and all that, but that's
tough shit. Until you raise your hand and take the oath at whatever base you're taking Basic at, you
can walk if you don't like it.
Get what you want, or you'll regret it. I wish that I'd had a board like this to ask questions such as
this back in the day. I'd still have signed, but I'd probably have gone with a different MOS, and would
have been better equipped for the line of BS that was going to be fed to me at the recruiters & MEPS.