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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. -- Peace! Om "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack Nicholson |
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