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					Originally Posted by BarTopDancer  Get everything in writing!!!!!!!!
 Recruiters will promise the moon to get people signed up.
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 Yeah- that was the main advice from the marine I know.
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					Originally Posted by blueerica  Life will turn out the way it's supposed to; or at least that's what I try and tell myself when I feel all helpless and, as you put it, jello-like. 
I do know there are a lot of great opportunities stemming from the military - it's all in what choices are made along the way. For my boyfriend, it's given him a rewarding, well-paying career as a contractor for the Air Force. 
  
Make sure, if he does decide to join up, to get some skills out of it. It PAYS.    | 
	
 I am hoping he will stop and get his GED first. *sigh* what a day!