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Given a choice between going to college and not going to college, statistics still say you will always come out ahead, financially, by saying yes. That's especially true if you can get a college degree debt-free. Like you said, being an EMT is "somewhat of a dead-end career", and you'd be stuck...

It's not just that they have 'no abnormal hindrances'. They do have things going for them that others - others who, strictly speaking, are also 'functioning normally' - don't have. Take 'white privilege', for instance. I know that's a term that rubs some people the wrong way, but bear with me...

Well, many people do indeed have advantages in life that they didn't 'deserve' or 'work for'. They just happen to have been born in the right place, at the right time, with the right genetic makeup. And yes, then they did what they could / had to, in order to turn those God-given advantages into...

Can one be privileged in a bad way? ;)

Insofar as the opportunity to serve in the military was ever something that you wanted (as opposed to something you were forced into for lack of viable alternatives), and at the time of your enlistment or commissioning, you had one or more 'unearned' advantages that made this a possibility for...

The point is there are people outside of the military who got six knee surgeries, and much worse, too. And they didn't get the benefit of a service academy education (or GI bill benefits) for it, because they knew at 18 (or even earlier) that they weren't medically qualified.

I'm not saying that where your crib stands when you're born doesn't also play a large role (which, by the way, is something no high school age SA hopeful has any more control over than the genes they were born with). But how many people who are otherwise perfectly qualified for a service...

I'm a service academy graduate (though not from one in the US). I received a "free" education in return for a service commitment, in a field (pilot training) that would have cost me the price of house, at least, had I done it outside of the military. Did my 20, then got out, now I'm a teacher...

Yes. I believe that’s where Major Mackenzie got her law degree, on the show ;).

Yes. I should have said: "it mostly doesn't happen while on active duty, except for the lucky (and hard-working) few who get selected into LEP". I must say, coming myself from a culture where having served in the military is not exactly a badge of honor (more of a reaon to be looked at askance...

Thanks for the replies. So URL Officer to lawyer is not that unusual a career path, but it mostly doesn't happen while on active duty. Noted.

I know I'm very late to ask a question like this, since it is sparked by a TV series that premiered almost 30 years ago, but ... bear with me, if you will. I have a 14-year-old daughter who was born in the US to foreign parents (but has US citizenship). She's being raised in Western Europe (in...

Should I feel implicated by this statement? ;). For whatever it's worth: I am in fact a graduate of a service academy (not one in the US). While there, I was subjected to some of what is being described above as 'maltraining'. I wouldn't go so far as to say that the quality of my education...

Funnily enough, we do not consider ourselves Americans (well, we aren't), and so if you'd asked me six months ago, I would not have thought my daughter even realized that serving in the American military might potentially be an option for her. But despite not having raised her as a true American...

I've served in the military, though not in the US. I was never in combat, but I frequently served in situations where lives were at stake. Like you, I experienced some of that paragraph personally during my training. But when I entered my first operational unit, that unit's ability to complete...

Do you honestly believe that most of the things defined as maltraining in that paragraph contribute to the making of good officers, let alone ‘better’ ones than can be made without those things?

Thank you, Captain MJ. The option for international students to attend the SA’s in exchange for a service obligation at home is something I wasn’t aware of until now! justdoit: We do know one person from our country, who has dual citizenship and is a USCGA alumna and former NAPS Cadet. But she...

Hi I'm the mother of a 13-year-old daughter, born in the US and therefore a US citizen, but raised in Europe. Neither myself nor her father (or any other family members) are from the US. I am, however, a graduate of the Military Academy in my home country, and a former military SAR and...