So curiosity got this cat and looked up Gridiron's previous posts.
I think from those posts they are someone with major second thoughts and this is their problem.
Posts are changing....early posts say the folks support this decision, but felt due to being a minority they won't be promoted, nothing about fear of death. They originally posted their dream was SF.
Than there was a promotion rate issue...again parents misinformation, but sorry this is where I get off the I am an immigrant bus. OP was 8 mos old when they moved to the US from Ethiopia. Your parents, yes because 1/2 of their life was living in Ethiopia, you OTOH are to me 1st gen. American. You attended school from the 1st day in FFX VA . I am betting you were not in English as a 2nd language even in kindergarten. I am not denying your home life was not more akin to an immigrant's family, carrying traditions from Ethiopia, just saying
For you personally you may hold dual citizenship, but you were raised in the US and you have no memories of what life was like in Ethiopia before moving to the US, only stories from your parents.
~ Classic post from the OP was their fathers argument was so ridiculous he was left speechless....sound familiar?
From there it went into I am going to VT.... And into so what you are saying is at VT (an SMC) I won't have a life outside of ROTC and Corps the fall semester as a new cadet!
{Me LMAO....what did you think life at an SMC would be like, it is an SMC for G sake!)
They also want to change their majors due to the fear that they can't juggle both an SMC life and college.
At the same time the posts of deployment came up regarding armor vs infantry.
Than we had the parents don't want me to die thread so what are the cushy jobs.
Now it is the military is a war machine.
I am starting to see a trend, and the trend is I want to wear the uniform and medals, but not thrilled about the idea of the amount of work and sacrifice required to get those medals and wearing the uniform.
I think they are entering this realm of joing the Army because they watched too many Army commercials. Sorry for diverting the thread, but unless as Other posters understand the root of all these threads, than we are all just spending time for no gain. They will start another thread that is negative in some form or shape and then defend themselves by saying I asked BC the folks or others are thinking for them,
LMAO at Bullet's driving statement. You see early on my SIL asked me if I wasn't scared he would die in a plane crash. This was right after Gulf I. Without skipping a beat I asked are you worried your DH will die on the NJTPKE, he drives it everyday and there are crashes on that road everyday?! If I lived in that fear I might as well go insane. God has a day he will die, and I can lock him in a closet, but he will still die.
I also was once called a war monger to my face by someone in our family because I supported what Bullet did. I smiled and looked at them, then quietly said and tonight and tomorrow and the rest of your life you can sleep easy because my Bullet was willing to die for your right to call him and I a war monger. They never said a deragotory remark again to me or anyone in my family. They actually matured and when 9/11 came around they called me to see if we were okay and would be there if Bullet had to be deployed. They apologized in that call for what they considered as an ignorant remark years ago.