How to Get Military Recruiters to Quit Trying

Your curiousity about a military career led you to give your personal information to a recruiter. Now, you're still receiving recruitment information even though you decided a military career is not for you. Military recruiters are a persistent breed. Here's a few suggestions to stop receiving recruitment information in the mail or by phone for months or years to come.

Instructions

1. Be firm and consistent on the phone. Tell the recruiter you're not interested and politely request they take you off their contact list. Repeat this every time you receive a phone call.

2. Mark all recruitment mail "Return to Sender" and place it in an outgoing mailbox.

3. Cajole a friend or family member to talk to the recruiter on your behalf to explain that you're no longer interested.

4. Use the Caller ID feature on your phone to put yourself in a sad mood before answering a recruiter's call. Speak in a slow monotone voice and create unusually long pauses before responding with no to all offers.

5. Steel yourself to ignore all offerings of free items and large amounts of cash bonuses and salaries.

Tips & Warnings

• Tell the recruiter you're pregnant as a way to get them to stop calling; even more effective if you're male.

• Telling a recruiter you can't talk because tether won't allow you to meet with them.

• Military recruiters are a persistent breed and are usually career officers. You may have to wait a decade or so for them to retire before the above methods to work effectively.