My kids bought this for their NJROTC Commander

[MissMillie]

and they're hoping to give it to him tonight at their awards banquet.

I'm sitting here at work waiting for the damned thing to be delivered.

http://www.backyardartillery.com/productinfo.php?item=82521&ret=//rbguns/index.php

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. If my kids were NJROTC I'd be eating my fingernails

down to stumps, what with all the strongarm recruitment going on these days. :(

[MissMillie]

2. This is strictly a high school program

and the kids are not required to take it any further than that. They're kids--they can't sign up for the service yet.

Anyway, the armed services won't take my biological son because he has keratoconus (a disease of the cornea) and my unofficially adopted son is pretty sure he's going to do reserves to help pay for college. (I've tried talking him out of it, but he thinks there's no other way to get money for school. Methinks the guidance counselor is not very good about informing kids of their options.)

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Keep talking to the unofficial one. Or get a vet to talk to him

If you don't know any I can think of at least two websites where you can contact some.

*hugs*

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. money for school

I knew a lot of kids in engineering school in ROTC. It was that, or they didn't go to school. You gotta do what you gotta do.

[Mizmoon]

6. How about applying for grants and loans?

You don't even have to risk life and limb to get them ...

[OldLeftieLawyer]

5. Your adopted son is misinformed

He'll have to put his life and well-being on the line before he'll see a cent of college money, and who's to say there'll be any money there for tuition when (and if) he ever tries to take advantage of what they promised.

Tell your son that they lie. The recruiters lie about everything, and all they want is warm bodies to put in the line of hot bullets and bombs.

If you want, I can tell you about my best friend's son, who believed what they said, and who is now in Iraq, where he knows how badly he's been betrayed - he's only 19.

They lie. Your boy can find other ways of paying for college. Nothing is worth what they'll extract from him.

Good luck...............

[MissMillie]

7. Oh, I know all this

but you can't convince him. And besides--he WANTS to serve.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

9. Have him talk to people who have served

That should inform him.

I know about teenage boys - heads harder than steel - that's why the armed forces gets them.

[MissMillie]

8. Isn't anyone at all interested in the rubber band gun?

:shrug:

[NoSunWithoutShadow]

10. It's a good gift for the Commander. I like the rubber band machine

gun for $395. And it's out of stock.





Edit: typo