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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is she interested in military-adjacent schools like the Citadel? Or ROTC?[/quote]

To put it bluntly, she's a [b]terrible [/b]runner. So, no. [/quote]

She can do it.  The minimum standard is something ANYONE can meet with a little time and effort.  I didn’t even become interested in ROTC until first semester of freshman year in college.  I was also a “terrible runner.” As in, never ran a complete mile nonstop in my life.  I’d always have to walk for some portion of the one-mile run on the Presidential fitness test in gym class.  Now I find out, in order to qualify for the ROTC scholarship I desperately needed, I would have to run not one, but TWO miles.  So I got to work.  I went to the student fitness center about 4 days per week and would run on the indoor track.  I started with run one lap, walk two- until I made it two miles.  I would do that for 2 weeks, then I’d run one lap, walk one lap for 2 miles for another two weeks.  Then I’d run 2 laps, walk one for another couple weeks.  Slowly I would increase the running, decrease the walking until I was able to fully run 2 miles. Interval sprints help tremendously as well.  In about 6 months time, I went from being able to run only 1/2 mile to running to 2 miles in 18 min for my scholarship qualification test- which was well within the required max time of I think 18:30.  I did get faster during my time in service, even though I didn’t like running and was never the fastest of the women. If i could do it, so can your DD.  But she ultimately had to want to do it and put in the work.  [/quote]

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