...i got out after my recruiting detail ended. the year after, there were so many stories dropping of how recruiters were killing themselves. my situation in recruiting was a bit different from the career joes i recruited with--well i should say my disposition about my life in the military was very cavalier at the time--so i didn't stress about numbers because i knew i was getting out right afterwards. the career joes, though...they suffered through mental manipulation and all other types of s**t if their numbers weren't right at the end of each month. recruiting commands were and probably still are dangling recruiter's whole military careers over their heads like it's a joke. take a career joe who has just done 8+ years in service with a little more than 11 or so years left until their retirement, and tell them you're going to dishonorably discharge them because they're not putting enough qualified people in the army during another bulls**t war.
i actually volunteered to go into recruiting. as soon as my orders came and i shipped to recruiting school, my old unit got deployed to iraq. i thought i had dodged a bullet...or an IED. i thought wrong.