Because I started this after my first two initial meetings with my recruiter, I thought I'd just make the second post about my impressions and such. I should note this my experience with the National Guard, not any other branches. I did meet with the Army recruiter, but after my initial meeting, they never called me back and after a few attempts of getting back a hold of them, (and then the officer recruiter) I finally got through with them like 2 months after and they said they were trying to get a hold of me for the part few months. ::shrugs:: Dunno what that means in recruiter talk but I'm not interested in sitting around waiting for stuff to happen, specially with my student loan debt and other mounting things.
I first contacted the recruiter through the website HERE and was promptly emailed or called the next morning, I can't really remember. I meet with the recruiter fairly quickly and we went over some of my concerns such as my unauthorized use charge when I was 18 at the snowboarding mountain I worked t and my physical control I received 2 years prior. One is sealed and hopefully the PC will be in the next year, but none of that matters with these guys since they do an FBI check. I had to write out a list of all the places I lived or worked in the last 10 years. The weird part, I think he was kinda of iffy on if I'd actually qualify or was testing if I actually wanted to join, is that he gave me background check forms to take to the different city police stations and counties that I lived in. Because I graduated from college 2 years ago, I had to go to about 8 different stations which I completed that day. 5 or so days later, 12/23/2013 I returned to the station with all my paperwork, and even checking the 400,000 life insurance policy for 16 dollars a month so in case something does happen, I left it to my mother so someone responsible will be able to give it to my daughter. I had to file a release for a suitability review and he said he'd email that day or the next day (today the 24th)) to let me know. But because of the holiday, I'm not to worried until the 27th comes around, because I'd prefer to hopefully go to basic around March or April.
Currently I'm just trying to get in shape and get my push-up and sit-up count up as much as I can but its hard in the cold. I am probably around 20 push-ups and maybe 40 or 50 sit-ups which for being as out of shape I am, that's pretty amazing. I joined a Title Boxing to help with that.
Well my fingers are being crossed, because this would help me soooooo greatly. I could actually go to Law School. go back or computer programming, or get a full-time position there within the military; hell I may even meet a girl in there.
My next update will probably be a short one, it'll be after I hear back from him which could either end the blog here which then I will turn it into a career searching blog or something like that. I also might have the response of my daughter when I tell her. That won't be fun and will probably make me sad since she tells me so much she wants to move down with me.
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