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A resource for parents and Mentors - Marine Corps

Don't know if this will be helpful; and on the surface it's aimed at enlisted Marines. However you could sub Army/WP for Marine Corps anywhere in the videos/transcripts. Brings a tear to my eye every time I watch them. YMMV.

http://www.lifeasamarine.com/marines/supporting/your-role
 
grad11

That is awesome, thanks for your service to the greatest country in the world, the United States of America.

God Bless and God Speed,

RGK
 
Thank you for all of the suggestions. I have been talking to my dad, and I believe he supports me because it is what I really want to do. However, it is my mom now that won't talk about West Point. My dad has tried to persuade her on my behalf, but she won't budge. Mainly, she won't consider West Point, not because of the school, but because of the 5 years after I would graduate. She is mainly just really worried. I talked to her, and both of my parents would let me go to NASS if accepted, but she still said no SLS. (Probably because my dad told her that the Navy would be safer, true or not true.) Thank you for the video, and I will look up those videos from National Geographic. I will keep bringing up West Point in the hopes that she will change her mind about SLS in time. Congratulations on getting accepted to and graduating from West Point, grad11. Thank you for serving our country and thank you for all of the replies. :smile:
 
Jen said:
Thank you for all of the suggestions. I have been talking to my dad, and I believe he supports me because it is what I really want to do. However, it is my mom now that won't talk about West Point. My dad has tried to persuade her on my behalf, but she won't budge. Mainly, she won't consider West Point, not because of the school, but because of the 5 years after I would graduate. She is mainly just really worried. I talked to her, and both of my parents would let me go to NASS if accepted, but she still said no SLS. (Probably because my dad told her that the Navy would be safer, true or not true.) Thank you for the video, and I will look up those videos from National Geographic. I will keep bringing up West Point in the hopes that she will change her mind about SLS in time. Congratulations on getting accepted to and graduating from West Point, grad11. Thank you for serving our country and thank you for all of the replies. :smile:
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Jen, thanks for the update. That sounds like progress. Things were similar in our house. DS wanted to enlist in the Marines. His Mom was opposed. She finally came around to it being OK if he went to college first. He's now an NROTC College Programmer. I'm sure your Mom will come around in time. :thumb:
 
Hey, Jen, I went to NASS and AFASS and not SLS because my parents thought the Navy and Air Force were safer and whatnot. I had a blast and it sort of put my parents over the acceptance threshold of the military. A visit to West Point later and I was marking West Point as my choice on the nomination docs. They'll come around once they realize this is what you REALLY want and how great of an opportunity it is for you.
 
Jen said:
Thank you for all of the suggestions. I have been talking to my dad, and I believe he supports me because it is what I really want to do. However, it is my mom now that won't talk about West Point. My dad has tried to persuade her on my behalf, but she won't budge. Mainly, she won't consider West Point, not because of the school, but because of the 5 years after I would graduate. She is mainly just really worried. I talked to her, and both of my parents would let me go to NASS if accepted, but she still said no SLS. (Probably because my dad told her that the Navy would be safer, true or not true.) Thank you for the video, and I will look up those videos from National Geographic. I will keep bringing up West Point in the hopes that she will change her mind about SLS in time. Congratulations on getting accepted to and graduating from West Point, grad11. Thank you for serving our country and thank you for all of the replies. :smile:
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Your mom is partially right as to Army is more dangerous than other services. However, I would say she is not being rational (no offense to your Mom).

I will use myself as an example. While I was in active duty for 7 years, no war. Don't know if your mom could see the future, but I bet you she has no clue on what will happen in 2017 to 2022. Iraq is over. Afghanistan is drawing down. I join the National Guard and go sent to Iraq 2007 - 2008. While I was at Iraq, I had a desk job. Stastically, you have a higher chance of getting killed in a car accident and Iraq of Afghanistan now.

Someone needs to defend and serve our country and if your Mom's answer is not you but someone else shame on her.

For every service member there are parents/spouse/childern.
 
vampsoul said:
A visit to West Point later and I was marking West Point as my choice on the nomination docs. They'll come around once they realize this is what you REALLY want and how great of an opportunity it is for you.
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It took the candidate overnight visit at USMA for my wife to swing around. It was a combination of the cadets we met, the detailed briefings and tours, and playback of DS's experiences that made the difference. Note: We attended similar briefings at NASS and CVW at USNA. It was the contrast we saw that swung her.
 
MemberLG said:
Any idea why your parents are so against it?

One time, a parent of a female applicant told me that her relatives were concerned about "sexual harrassement." My simple reply was when I was a cadet, I didn't witness it and what was the factual basis of the concern? No facts given.
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And, ironically, one can suppose that a woman's chances of being date raped by some drunken frat brother is probably higher at State College or Generic-Elite University than it is at an SA like USMA or USNA. Women at the SA's learn martial arts and self-defense. :)
 
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