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My son is 19 and a sophomore now at Washington State and in the Army ROTC program. I have all kinds of apprehensions about him serving, being in peril, etc. Of course he's 5 foot 10, 165 lbs of pure muscle and wants to go in to the infantry so that doesn't help. He was the first freshman in 6 years to max out his physical requirements and just finished a Ranger competition at Fort Lewis with a team from his command. He's all in with this. I'm scared (*&^less that he'll be walking around some remote middle eastern village in 4 years knocking doors down. But that's my issue. It doesn't faze him a bit.
He's focused, pulled a 3.4 his freshman year, is getting a lot of college paid for and came up with all of this on his own. He wanted it, he pursued it and he's knocking it out of the park. I couldn't be more proud of him.
I'd much rather have the apprehension I have than a kid who had no drive, wanted to live at home and play xbox all day.
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Jerry
1983 911 SC/Carrera Franken car, 1974 914 Bumblebee, 1970 914-4, 1999 323ti
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