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[quote=Anonymous]My early high school son is talking about a career in the military. I can't say I'm surprised, as he has always been fascinated by the military, but I have personally lost two very close friends who died in action after making all the right decisions - service academies, officer status, seemingly comfortable careers that just happened to end in tragedy. I was absolutely horrified at the way their deaths were handled and I have real issues with the current state of the service. It's an administrative mess to the point of being unsafe even in peacetime.  And then there's the fact that we haven't really had peacetime since 2001 ... I would not only hate for my son to be killed, but I would hate for him to have to live with killing someone else. Especially for a potentially terrible reason, given the state of our government.

I respect our troops, but I don't want this life for my son. That said, I recognize that plenty of people have positive experiences with the military. My son is looking at the service academies and ROTC. Does anyone have any experience to share, positive or negative?  Also, he wears glasses, is mildly colorblind, and takes medication for ADHD. I have read elsewhere that any of those things can disqualify an applicant. Is that true?[/quote]

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