As further incentive, recruiting duty offers educational opportunities that aren't available on most types of duty. You can recruit and go to school at the same time. Furthermore, recruiters receive a Navy warm-up suit as part of organizational clothing that they can use to prospect for recruits in their communities at events like high school football games, or just walking through a mall. While there are many tangible benefits associated with recruiting, assignment to recruiting duty is also hectic and challenging. Ken L. Edwards, the E-7 Recruiting Detailer.
Time management is a challenge.
Communications, trying to talk someone into the unknown is a challenge but these are skills you take with you when you leave. There is one immediate, but not tangible benefit, according to Marbey. What I like most is the satisfaction when a recruit looks at me and says he wants to join the Navy, and I know he's going to do well.