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Originally Posted by carnation
I'm told that probably due to the economy, the armed forces are seeing a big rise in numbers of potential recruits and they want to see diplomas rather than GEDs. I know several kids who went to boot camps last year who intended to enlist when they were of age but they had gotten GEDS. 
One boot camp instructor told me that they may now focus on the kids getting diplomas through the credit recovery program that UGAalum94 spoke of above rather than getting GEDs. |
My guys aren't eligible for military. The boot camp program I was talking about is the Impact Incarceration program in Illinois. The idea is that first offenders, particularly young adults, can serve 4 months in boot camp rather than their sentence. They get discipline, etc. and help out communities in natural disasters as well. But in my experience they come out on parole and get back in the same shit they were involved in. The majority have ruled out the military either from a lack of desire to get shot at or an assumption they can't get a waiver. And most of them probably can't get a waiver anyway.
It's sad, some of them, the ones who are really trying, would do well there. But put back in their same neighborhoods they end up back with the same rotating set of people in and out of trouble. It's an extra tangle to the issue.
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