Ossifers don’t paint rocks.

They order us to do it.

I’m trying to be hopeful, but, his GPA is a bit low. (sophmore coming of age year meltdown). Here’s hoping later trend in grades, extra math during summer, decent SAT, and a high PFT score puts him through.

That and hoping Marine recruiting CO & XO were impressed by him blowing chunks at the finish of 3 mile run.

If he doesn’t get the scholarship, he’ll try again at Jan board. If no joy there it’ll be ROTC anyway for him (he’s sick/motivated USMC wannabe) and off to Community College first two years.

Yes, the Seattle Children’s Hospital NICU… one and the same. She worked on the “medical floor” prior to moving upstairs a year ago. Up for an even greater challenge, she’s opted for working nights. We now have an RN, a med-tech and a future Doc of Physical Therapy. I’ll be well taken care of!

Thanks for the kudos… she loves it and reports they’re breaking new medical ground in the care of newborns, premies and others all the time.

Curtis, thanks again. Ours CHOSE the ROTC program just because it was awarded on merit; most today are given based on other, um, factors. I’ll always remember their tour at camp their Junior summer, seeing so many of the country’s fine young men and women at Ft. Lewis. It was a genuine thrill; sent a charge up the spine, it did, to see them graduate… and none of them would be asking customers if they’d “like that with fries?”

Ole CAPT K owned 3 construction companies and it was no matter of cheapness. He was merely setting a baseline and suggesting that the next generation really needed to buckle down and study enough to earn that scholarship. But you’re right, those all girl spending teams are hard on a paycheck.

To tie into another thread, tell her she’s an angel for me, would you?

It’s funny how we all make our choices. Some want nothing in subs, six months of solitude and confinement and confident it’s just going to sink the next time and not come back up. Others like the Army, sure that while sea duty may have better chow 3/4th of this planet is made of water and last they heard humans don’t have gills, best to stay on terra firma.

Regardless of their choice, you’ll find very few joining the military because it’s the only job available. In point of fact, historically the military has excluded more folks than it has allowed to join, mainly for medical reasons.

If they’re in the service, they could have made it into nearly any school in the nation. Be thankful we have our best and brightest at work.

Can you imagine our military staffed by the folks you meet at TSA or the local DMV?

– Max