Joining the Air Force While in College?

twoinanddone
Mon, 20 Nov 2017 02:18:46 +0000

A friend just retired from the Coast Guard. She joined at age 18 and really has had a wonderful life and career - and she’s just 43! While active duty, she got married, had two kids, got her undergrad, got a masters, and was able to pass her GI bill to her 2 kids so they each got 18 months of housing allowance and I’m not sure the amount of tuition but it was a lot. Her husband is also retired Coast Guard so they have two retirement incomes to live on. He has a son who I think got all of his GI benefits for college.

Since retiring, she’s been on about 10 vacations; bought an RV, traveled all around the midwest, to Vegas, Oregon, Austria, a cruise, and ran the NY marathon. My friend was in some kind of personnel work and never was on a boat and does not have a gun. Coasties can go on foreign postings but it isn’t as common as in other branches.

Oh, how I wanted my daughter to go to the Coast Guard academy.