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Thought on joining the Military (nowadays)
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<blockquote data-quote="Dale Carlson" data-source="post: 639272" data-attributes="member: 56095"><p>I think it's a lot more complicated about why people join the service. I don't think there's just a single profile, or even a dozen profiles that might fit the people who join. I had made it as first alternate from my congressman's district to the AF Academy, and could have tried again if I had wanted to. I had the grades for and a scholarship to UCLA. I even had a couple of careers in mind - journalism or architechture, both of which I had excelled in high school. Being the son of an Army first sergeant, I definitely had the discipline. But I was tired of school, and let the scholarship lapse, didn't re-try for the Academy, and basically just kicked around for a year working different nowhere jobs, until I decided it was time do something. I joined two years after the end of Vietnam, so it was still not a good time for the military. But I worked hard at my job, kept my nose clean, and found a purpose with which to live my life. What more can ask for?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dale Carlson, post: 639272, member: 56095"] I think it's a lot more complicated about why people join the service. I don't think there's just a single profile, or even a dozen profiles that might fit the people who join. I had made it as first alternate from my congressman's district to the AF Academy, and could have tried again if I had wanted to. I had the grades for and a scholarship to UCLA. I even had a couple of careers in mind - journalism or architechture, both of which I had excelled in high school. Being the son of an Army first sergeant, I definitely had the discipline. But I was tired of school, and let the scholarship lapse, didn't re-try for the Academy, and basically just kicked around for a year working different nowhere jobs, until I decided it was time do something. I joined two years after the end of Vietnam, so it was still not a good time for the military. But I worked hard at my job, kept my nose clean, and found a purpose with which to live my life. What more can ask for? [/QUOTE]
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