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.
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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.
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.
If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.
I wouldn't have gone to a Division I school if I didn't have scholarship help. We couldn't afford it.
In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.
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.
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.
Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible.
I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.
I was the only kid out of six of us to go to college, primarily because my parents could not afford it.
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