@austinmshauri As a “brat” myself with a retired career dad, 2 career grandfathers, a retired career brother, 2 career uncles, and many, many career friends, I am well aware of both the sacrifice and professional opportunities, which was why I made the suggestion. In my experience, outside of our military circle, many are not aware of the college and career opportunities available through ROTC and a military career. My point was she (other daughter) had no idea those opportunities existed. She is going ROTC with the intention, like my family, of being career. She did not know she could achieve her career goals through the military, since that was never considered in her family. Like the OP, my family members had no college funds; I took the path of working 3 jobs; my family members took the path of ROTC/career military; yes, in engineering. You don’t know what you don’t know; we take for granted the opportunities are common knowledge. In our local community they are not; a large number in our current community consists of first or second gen, educated professionals. There is no recruiter in the school, and military opportunities are only discussed with students who are not “college bound.” The professional opportunities are never discussed with college path kids, especially high stat students like “OD.” I do not know the OPs home situation and am trying to provide additional information that could be a possibility. I’m sorry if I wasn’t clear. I was not suggesting trying to get an “easy” free education. Perhaps I should’ve given more background info in my initial response.
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