I'm also worried about how I'm going to explain myself to the recruiting officer. I left the Naval Academy because I was SIQ for a week and I just had so many negative thoughts and I just felt that I didn't want to be a part of a regimented system and be separated for my family for so long. I believed I was not ready to make such a commitment yet, but before I was on SIQ, I was very gung-ho about being at the Naval Academy. I made a rash and immature decision in leaving, and I don't know how to explain this to the recruiting officer.
On the decision part:
We’ve all made bad decision so don’t beat yourself over the head too much about it. In my opinion it’s not the bad decision that I’m going to look at it’s how you went about the process of identifying it as a bad choice and what you did to move forward to fix that choice. There’s two type of people when it comes to bad choices one that sits backs and whines about the consequences about their bad choice and the person that acknowledges that bad choice and figures a way to move forward in lieu of that choice. You sir are the latter… you’re trying to fix the choice that means a lot in my book. And who do you think I would rather have in our great military? Yup you got it the one that moves forward and fixes it.
I know it’s kind of cheesy but my favorite motivation saying is the only difference between a road block and a stepping stone is how you look at it.
Good luck and keep moving forward.