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If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to college.

— Emmitt Smith

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I wouldn't have gone to a Division I school if I didn't have scholarship help. We couldn't afford it.

— Ashton Eaton

I wasn't a good student in high school. I wanted to go to college, but they weren't exactly beating down my door to offer me admission, and it's so expensive in the U.S. If you join up for a period, the army will pay your school and provide a stipend.

— Kevin Powers

My mom says I either have to go to college or go into the military.

— Camren Bicondova

I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines.

— RJ Mitte

I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.

— Scott Brooks

If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.

— James Blunt

I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there.

— Channing Tatum

I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.

— Chuck Feeney

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.

— Rick James

I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.

— Jon Huertas