Posted on 06/09/2019 4:28:47 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
FORT SILL, Okla.—Millennial recruits and their helicopter parents are demanding answers after the Army’s “Call for Fyre Festival” failed to deliver on its promises of extravagant music performances, celebrity appearances, and unrestricted free-fire zones.
The festival began as a recruiting gimmick to attract Millennials, but ballooned into a social-media phenomenon, enticing the nation’s youth to sign away years of their lives they would otherwise have been spent aimlessly racking up student debt.
Extravagant music performances? “I don’t know but I’ve been told...” is a classic!
Don’t know about the other branches but the army’s version of Casey Jones is a little different from the Grateful Dead’s.
:-)
The festival began as a recruiting gimmick to attract Millennials, but ballooned into a social-media phenomenon, enticing the nation’s youth to sign away years of their lives they would otherwise have been spent aimlessly racking up student debt.
I inadvertently joined the Navy. Wondering what ratings would be open to me, I went to the recruiter who began administering aptitude and technical tests. As I finished them, he handed me another stack of papers, and I kept right on signing stuff.
When I got home, I said, “Hi, dad. I just joined the Navy.”
You got Shanghaied in a modern-day fashion.
Heh. True enough. I had some of the best
years of my life in the Navy, so no regrets.
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