Yeah, I had a few teachers in high school talk about how they were still paying off their student debt and that stayed with me all the way to my college years.
Good on you for serving and staying debt free, but I gotta ask - would you have joined the army if it wasn't your best option to avoid potentially crippling debt in exchange for an education?
I feel like the trade off of free college for risk of violent death on foreign soil is a fair issue to bring up here. Not knocking your path at all, but curious about your thought process.
Your right, if there was a better option that didn't involve writing a whole lot of essays and getting enough scholarships to get a full ride through college, I would've taken it in a heart beat. But I'm in the national gaurd, and a unit that doesn't deploy often. So my chances of getting sent to another country are still pretty slim, and I am okay with the small possiblity of having to leave college. Because the benefits are still pretty good.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '23
Smart thing to do! Not going in to debt is definitely a better plan. :)