As the title states my step-son is considering joining the military straight out of high school, specifically the Air Force.
A little background on the situation. I have never served in the military but my wife served in the Air Force. She has always encouraged the children to go to college and then join the military if they wanted to. My step-son however has continued to under perform in school and needs to mature up considerably before he will do well in college. He is very intelligent and his Freshmen thru Juniour year performed well in school for the most part. He had a 3.9 GPA. His senior year his grade plummeted on all of the college level courses because the teachers would not spoon feed him the info and held him accountable for late work. He know routinely gets D's. He applied to and was accepted into all of his colleges and received scholarships for all of them as well, however all of those decisions were based on his transcript that didn't include his Senior year. Beyond school he is always late, he has no interest in driving, he lacks motivation, addicted to video games, etc in general he has seemed to have reverted to a 13 year old in an 18 year old body. We have talked to him about his future and laid things out and told him if he doesn't change he will waste his talents and we are not going to stand for a man child living with us. He seems genuinely interested in joining the Air Force which his Mom and I agree would be a great thing for him. He has taken his ASVAB and scored an 81 on it. In addition he is athletic and does work hard in physical activities so I am not worried about the physical aspects of miltary life for him. We are taking him to a recruiter on Wednesday, so my question is this:
For all of those who have served if you were starting over as an 18 year old what would you look out for, ask for, etc if talking to the recruiter? What steps would you take to make the experience the best you could?
Thanks everybody in advance.
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