On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 09:46:35 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:


I attended college for a while following high school however I was
young, restless and frankly tired of school, especially of the stupid
"liberal arts" courses we all took. So, I dropped out, much to my
parent's dismay and got a job at Boston Whaler.

My parents ... particularly my father ... was starting to put the
pressure on regarding my future and, without their knowledge, I met with
a Navy recruiter a couple of times to explore that option. I didn't
join however until one day I received a "Greetings" letter from the
draft board. I immediately contacted the Navy recruiter who told me to
ignore it and come on in to sign up for my "adventure".

For me, it was not a bad choice. As I often tell people I feel I got
more out of the experience than I gave. It allowed me to mature a bit,
decide what I really wanted to do and the Navy assisted and paid for
much of what I had to do to accomplish it. :-)


Sounds like me. My Marine buddy had me drive him down to the recruiter
and while I was there the Navy guy talked me into taking the tests.
When I aced the ETST (pretty much what I had just taken in the last 2
semesters) the navy and CG guys started bidding and the CG won. I had
already talked to the CG and they had me on file but I had been
interested in working at a life boat station when they talked to me
then. I was on the waiting list. They bumped me up to "right now" and
I was off to boot camp in a week or two. My Marine buddy was at
Holibird 3 days before me.