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Haha, wow! I just got back from the Military Entrance and Processing Stations (MEPS...military sure likes abbreviations) a few hours ago, and jeez that's a crazy place. I actually had some fun there, after I got over the initial disorientation. I took the ASVAB on Thursday afternoon, and went back with about 20 kids to the hotel, where we played pool and hung out until curfew, so I got to meet pretty much everyone who was joining with me. This morning was a string of injections, inspections, detections, neglections, and all sorts of mean nasty things. /obscure reference Anyway, I got through all of it and passed. I was told to the the Nuke qualifying test, so I took that; then in a bit I went to see the job counselor. I told him I want to do Nuke, but also wanted to check out other things. He told me my test scores; I had gotten a 99 on the ASVAB and 46 (out of 50) on the Nuke test, I was so excited with that I did that well. So I'm in Nuclear Engineering now, and ship out mid-April (I forget the exact date). This is all insane...all the sudden I'm dedicated to going in the freaking Navy!
Yeah, I want to be assigned to a carrier, I think it'd be interesting hanging out on a ship that has aircraft landing on a floating city. I might go into subs, too; I've been told that they're tall enough to accomadate me, but I'll do some research while in school and see which way I want to go. Regarding my ranking: Because I'm in Nuke, I'll join as an E-3, and when I'm done with training, I'll be E-4, so my college credits really can't boost me (thanks for the advice though). I'm getting a $12k enlistment bonus and ... wow, things have changed for me over the past month. Thanks to those who have encouraged me so far, I appreciate it! For now...I'm not in yet, I don't know what it's like, so I may hate you later, but as for now, I have a direction, and I'm going. It makes me happy.
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