In my experience, no. I was recruited as I was graduating high school, but after I declined the Navy after finding out the recruiter was lying to me, never heard from any branch again. (I was being recruited for ROTC) I can't say if my experience is typical or not, but I don't think the selective service is allowed to act as a directory for spamming for recruits. It's there as the registry for the lottery that the draft becomes, if enacted.
Ok, what is it the recruiter lie about (given this is a theme, and I've never been actively recruited, I would pity the military service that wanted someone with my vision and coordination :) )
Basically, the recruiter promised I'd being doing work in my destined field (was studying electrical engineering) during summers off from school. When I was on campus for a scholarship interview, the officer there in charge of the ROTC program chuckled and told me straight faced something along the lines of "no, you'll be swabbing decks until you graduate."
So, I opted to go the self paid route. Figured after that I couldn't trust anything.
After scholarships and a little financial help from my parents, I graduated in 2003 with about 15k in loans on a 120k priced 4-year education with a dual BSEE and BSCPE.
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In my experience, no. I was recruited as I was graduating high school, but after I declined the Navy after finding out the recruiter was lying to me, never heard from any branch again. (I was being recruited for ROTC) I can't say if my experience is typical or not, but I don't think the selective service is allowed to act as a directory for spamming for recruits. It's there as the registry for the lottery that the draft becomes, if enacted.
Ok, what is it the recruiter lie about (given this is a theme, and I've never been actively recruited, I would pity the military service that wanted someone with my vision and coordination :) )
Basically, the recruiter promised I'd being doing work in my destined field (was studying electrical engineering) during summers off from school. When I was on campus for a scholarship interview, the officer there in charge of the ROTC program chuckled and told me straight faced something along the lines of "no, you'll be swabbing decks until you graduate."
So, I opted to go the self paid route. Figured after that I couldn't trust anything.
After scholarships and a little financial help from my parents, I graduated in 2003 with about 15k in loans on a 120k priced 4-year education with a dual BSEE and BSCPE.