If some 18 year old gets “duped” it is the fault their friends/family/community not the military.

um, again, look at the analogy. my point was only that you see Dateline specials (etc.) about how these same kids get duped into $100,000 credit limits that they don’t understand….merely drawing a comparison… i’m just looking for a little parity.

i support the idea that the military should not be recruiting on campuses because the implication is that the military is sanctioned by the school. that adds credibility to their case in the same way allowing a creditor on campus attaches credibility to the creditor.

i understand there is a regulation that ties federal funding for education to the requirement that the military be allowed to recruit. as long as it is unacceptable to be gay in the military they should be kept off campuses that have policies in place that do not allow organization with discriminatory policies to recruit on their campuses. period. end of story.

to allow the US government (as the military) to recruit on campuses with policies that would knock any other organization off campus is a gross miscarriage of justice and education.

off topic, i know. let this thread end here.

military when you’ve been duped into thinking it’s the only way

When is a person old enough to be responsible for their own destiny? I was 17 when I started college, I completed a full year before realizing that my family wasn’t going to be able to support me any further financially so I enlisted to minimize the financial debt after college. I was 18 years old making that decision on my own.

If some 18 year old gets “duped” it is the fault their friends/family/community not the military.

I went through every step. They explain to you before you sign, what your getting into as far as commitment. I knew that I would have to serve one weekend a month and two weeks a year with the potential of being federalized, called into active duty. If I knew that as an 18 year old enlistee, why or how are kids getting duped today, if not by their own lack of responsibility to ask questions and read what they are signing? Maybe kids are just not ready for the real world at 18 these days….

where’s that degree from?

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

yes you did.

Haha…

good reason to try again.

That word “again” keeps popping up…weird…

I graduated with a BS

yes you did.

Basic training was a purifying experience, removing the dross.

good reason to try again.

yet somehow it’s a good idea to promote military service over college or as a means to pay for college and no one thinks some unsuspecting kid might get duped. whatever.

Are you saying that military service is not as good as going to college? I did both, paid for my university via the GI Bill. Military service is honorable profession and compared to what some universities output as grads, military service would have been better. I graduated with a BS in CS and nothing I learned in college is actually used today practically. Everything I do I have learned after college on the job. The degree just got me in the door of my first job…

Jamiebeth, I hope you are not equating military service as a losers last chance….I’d have to say the best, most positive experience of my years at college, was when I skipped a semester to enlist. Basic training was a purifying experience, removing the dross.

I’m telling you from experience, if neither of you believe me, then that’s your option. I actually lived it, did it, went through it.

some wise man once told me that where there’s a will, there’s a way.

how again?

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