ChoatieLT graduates next month (at the top of his class), comes home for a 60-day leave, and then reports to Army Cyber Command at Ft. Gordon, GA in September where he will spend the next nine years. Yep, nine years—six-year commitment for Cyber, two years of grad school (somewhere*) and a one-year payback for grad school, so the Army owns him for nine years total. He’ll be 31 before the Army releases him. (Pay attention kids.)
*Earlier this year, he was selected for a Draper fellowship to MIT Lincoln Labs upon graduation, but Cyber changed the rules just three weeks before Branch Night: Six instead of a five-year commitment and all Cyber officers will attend grad school at some point during their stint, but not directly out of WP, so the fellowship went to another cadet. Army motto: Semper Gumby. He’s OK with all this because his goals align with the Army’s selections for him, but his mom’s martini count seems to be increasing.
BTW: After four years in the gray prison, he still says college and the military was/is easier than Choate.