Anyone veterans here? Just wanted to get a poll going out of curiosity. Did you join the military for the benefits/financial reasons or was it mainly for national pride? Out of all my friends....

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Joined out of a sense of duty. Long history as a military family. When the recruiter came calling I signed up. Got shot a couple times. Have a few other scars. But the teams accomplished every mission and the world was a better place for a while.

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90% seem to have done it because they kind of screwed up in high school and their family was poor so they did it to have a brighter future. Free education and great benefits.

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Veteran here. Joined because school wasn't for me at the time. Always had an inclination to somehow serve my country.

It wasn't easy ...... but I can't lie, what I've levered my service into has been pretty amazing.

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Join for college money cause I was broke. I somehow learn the meaning of national pride as we did thunder runs through Baghdad. I don't feel like being a vet gave me a leg up on recruiting...

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End of the day, you guys are the real deal

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OP. You just have to have the right perspective. All of us came from military families. Some with service records back to the Revolution. They knew we wouldn't say no before they showed up at the door asking to talk to us. In my case Notre Dame offered to hold a spot for me and the scholarship in every freshman class for 5 years for after I got done with my enlistment. I doubt any major college would do that today.

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Cap1 Leaving the service Columbia University gave me a same-day interview. Ultimately graduated from Georgetown, but I will never forget that courtesy. Dartmouth is offering full rides to veterans entering as freshman. There’s a program called Warrior Scholar that actively looks to partner high potential veterans with top tier schools. Some avenues are open, not everyone wants to walk through the doors. FourBlock is a veteran-corporate national networking organization. More than happy to put you in touch if it peaks your interest. Sounds like you’d make a fantastic mentor.

OP. Early 80s. Reagan was President and colleges weren't the liberal indoctrination centers they are now

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I’m part of that 90% although I screwed up more the first year of college and less so in high school. Grew up lower middle class, reduced price lunch at school etc etc.

Pwc1 yea it seems like military experience really helps you get into great schools and companies these days, not to mention the great benefits compared what they used to give before during the Vietnam era. Thanks for being honest about it considering there’s so many out there who try to claim they only did it for national pride and want some type of cookie for it but it was more of a selfish decision than anything

Capgemini glad you’re ok.

Same story as Capgemini but replace shots with explosions. I genuinely believed, and still do, in a sense of duty. I’m glad I left when I did, but still proud to have served.

I’m not sure I understand the purpose of this question- other than to compare us to the friends you know. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Back to OPs original comments. None of the 400 members of my unit were there because we couldn't accord college. All of us had turned down full ride scholarships to top rated schools. I turned down Harvard, Georgetown, Notre Dame, and Stanford. Others had similar lists. But we were target recruited. Sometimes the ranks are filled with the best and brightest.

Cap1 wow that’s impressive and surprising that all of them had full ride scholarships. That’d be extremely hard to turn down

Cap1 What changed? how long ago was this?

Oh OK that makes sense. Yes I agree that most universities these days definitely lean way more to the left however I do find that a lot of top MBA programs still do look at military experience favorably since it demonstrates That you can lead others which translates over to the business world very well

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