That was definitely a good read, even for a soldier in a sweet tent in Iraq, lol. I wouldn't really consider myself to have been one of those 'last chance' people you spoke of, although I myself have a GED. I wanted for years to join the military, and did after I got my GED. It's definitely worth joining in my eyes, you get to experience thing that most people never will in a lifetime. I didn't join for college, but once my time's up, I'm going to take advantage of the GI bill. Once I'm out of the sand, I want to start doing the free college offered on post to get a start before I get out. If you care for the opinion, you seem like more than the person to do recruiting, based on this and other posts that you've made here. I really wanted to do the Corporal Recruiting myself, but that was shot down once I read that you have to have a high school diploma, or a GED with x amount of college credit hours, that I don't have and would take a while to get. I hope all goes well with your time as a recruiter, I'm sure you deserve to get away from a post for a little and interact with civilians for a while.