In article >,
Yeff > wrote:

> On Wed, 31 May 2006 12:15:32 -0500, OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
>
> > Obviously you've not seen some of the recruiting campaigns.
> > It is all too true........
>
> I spent 10 years in the Air Force and currently run a mailing list of
> present and former military members, more than a few of whom have served
> in either Afghanistan or Iraq. My father retired from the Army and my
> brother served for 10 years and made it into Kuwait during Desert Storm.
>
> My own daughter is in JROTC in high school and will be going to Fort
> Jackson this August for Army basic training. She made this decision
> after giving *serious* thought to going to a service academy, thought
> which included a visit and tour to the US Military Academy at West
> Point, a tour arranged by the Honorable Michael Montelongo who, at the
> time, was the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial
> Management and Comptroller. Mr. Montelongo was also a graduate of West
> Point and invited us for a visit at the Pentagon. The meeting with him
> lasted just over an hour and included Pat Walker Locke, one of the 2
> first black women to graduate from West Point. Mrs. Walker was so
> impressed with my daughter that she invited her to a brunch she was
> having the next day. At that brunch was Brigadier General Vincent
> Brooks, the 1st black First Captain at West Point. BG Brooks was also
> the spokesman for CENTCOM during the Iraqi invasion:
> <http://www.udel.edu/global/community/brooksbio.html>
>
> My daughter has some *amazing* opportunities opened up for her and she's
> *choosing* to enlist.
>
> Yes, I've seen the recruiting campaigns.

In other words, you did not have the money to send her to a good
college... and were not poor enough to qualify for pel grants.

Sorry.
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Peace!
Om

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