Hello, I was wondering you Marines could answer a couple of questions for me. See, I hope to enlist in the Marines but I want to do my homework before I sign anything.
Well first thing, my mother, being at the young age that I am (old enough to enlist but young enough to still to live at home), I told her that one day I might want to join the Corps and be in intelligence, it seems like a good thing for me to do. I am currently in a... pre-college school for my high school years, she seems to think that I am nuts and that just because I am smart I can't serve in the Corps. My father thinks this as well himself being in the Army saying that if I enlist as a reserve that the Marine's won't, to quote my father, "Give a damn about your college." Is this statement true? If I am in college and the reserves call upon me will the Corps pay for lost time and the schooling I miss? I want to get a degree in Computer Sciences and I don't want to have to miss say six months of schooling.
Secondly, on my ASVAB test, (for those of you who don't know what the ASVAB is it's a test to scale your ability with the military, well at least from my understanding.) I scored a percentile of 93%, which I think is quite good, my recruiter just about said I can have any job I want in the Corps, but does this hold true if I join the reserves during college?
Another thought of mine concerning the Corps, my friend who is an E-2 right now may have a stress fracture in his right tibia. He won't go to the doctors to get it checked out and documented because he is scared that he might get thrown out of the Corps if t is serious enough, seeing how as he can still walk on it would the Corps really toss him out if he had a simple stress fracture? Or if he had a compound fracture? What's the lowdown on that?
That's about all the questions I have for now, I might have some more later on down the line.
Thank you for your time.
Ryan
P.S. I posted this in another forum too to get more answers, don't think it's a repeat for no reason, just lookin' for the most information I can get.