MitsuStyle - View Single Post - 14 days until I am off to Basic Training!! Woohoo!

B.Kiddo · 10-20-2009

My brother enlisted when he was 17 and was sent to basic the summer before his senior year of high school, he ended up getting mono two weeks in, was put in isolation and my dad went down to retrieve him. ((my dad is a retired 2nd Lt, Army (he had to retire at age 23, I think, honorable discharge), West Point grad)). Everyone in his original group is now over in Iraq and Afghanistan. He ended up getting the ROTC scholarship, so now he can't be deployed until he graduates college (he's got 5 years to get his mechanical engineering degree at Iowa State). I'm definitely glad for that, but also definitely glad the military is paying for his schooling, too. It's definitely an incentive to join if you can't afford school.

10-20-2009	#8
B.Kiddo Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Minneapolis Drives: 92' Mazda 323 Posts: 88	Re: 14 days until I am off to Basic Training!! Woohoo! My brother enlisted when he was 17 and was sent to basic the summer before his senior year of high school, he ended up getting mono two weeks in, was put in isolation and my dad went down to retrieve him. ((my dad is a retired 2nd Lt, Army (he had to retire at age 23, I think, honorable discharge), West Point grad)). Everyone in his original group is now over in Iraq and Afghanistan. He ended up getting the ROTC scholarship, so now he can't be deployed until he graduates college (he's got 5 years to get his mechanical engineering degree at Iowa State). I'm definitely glad for that, but also definitely glad the military is paying for his schooling, too. It's definitely an incentive to join if you can't afford school.