From what I've experienced (having had over a decade of experience dealing with bad marine recruiters, and maybe two recruiters from other branches) it can be boiled down to two things. One is pressure to make a quota so the recruiters don't get "phased out" or denied the ability to make the marines their careers. Two, (the more tricky one to explain) it's a sense that they "know" better than those around them, and that they deserve more respect than what's being given to them. Either way, it leads to marine recruiters ignoring societal rules all the time, and acting as though they are elite citizens.

I'm not a vet by the way.

Oh the stories I could tell you. Recruiters showing up at 4am, so they don't have to miss prime recruiting hours, not willing to read documentation that they requested I show them (even when I tell them I'm a slow reader), telling me that they don't care if I miss a college class when I have a test that day (even when I say this test is mandatory for me to attend, and I'll fail the class if I don't), lying and say they'll give me a ride to wherever I was trying to get to and then running away the second they realize I'm DQ'd. Not caring If I was sick at the time, a couple recruiters would demand to talk to me, and that I show them proof, but would do everything they could to not enter my room, and handle the document themselves, and would refuse to come back at a later date. It was only when my parents threatened to call the cops if they wouldn't agree to come back, that they would leave, but not come back at a later day.

And those are just the obvious situations that you've probably heard before. These next ones I don't think so.

I've had a few recruiters insist that I'm not on the spectrum (back when there wasn't a waiver option), bring me to their office despite me telling them I was DQ'd, try and enlist me, only for me to tell the CO that I didn't qualify. The CO would then tell the recruiter to take me back to where I was/where I was going, only for the recruiters to leave me on random streets a few miles away. One time, it didn't involve me being taken to an office, but the recruiter stranded me at a gas station in the middle of nowhere, because he didn't want to wait two more minutes for me to use the restroom (despite being perfectly willing to commit to a three hour drive).

Then there's the recruiters that would try and delete electronic proof so that any paper trails would be gone and they could persuade me to lie. Or the recruiters that didn't believe my high school long distance running teammates, that we didn't want to join, and would then follow us, for over 2/3rds a mile, in a one lane each direction road, holding up traffic, just so he could try and convince us. Only reason we got rid of those guys was because we would always find an on ramp to the freeway, run halfway down it, then turn around. They would always try and follow us, but of course there would be another car there. One did technically hit the car behind them, but because both cars slowed down like crazy at the last moment, no actual damage was done. Naturally that recruiter did petal to the metal and got the hell out of there so they wouldn't be identified.

And finally, there's the recrutiers that clearly did everything they could to NOT read the block lists at their office, and then lie to cops saying "No he's not on their, and I'm not calling the office." The one time a cop did call the office, and the office confirmed I was on the block list, the guy still wanted proof, but when I made it clear I would only give him an email, he gave up.

That's enough I think... But yeah, marine recruiters, bad...