I'd like to start out by thanking everyone in the military for their continued service to our great country. I have a few questions that I'd like to ask and hopefully someone would be nice enough to answer them.
I dropped out of highschool when I was 16 because I was stupid. I'm 22 now. I made a mistake and now I have to deal with it. Now, for the past year I've been working with 2 different recruiters. I started with a Marine recruiter that told me that I would need 15 college credits. We went to my local community college and I enrolled. I didnt have a GED, but that didnt seem like a problem. The only problem that did come up was that I needed $1500 to pay for these classes and I wasnt employed.
Around this same time I started talking with an Army recruiter that told me I didnt need the college credits or the GED because the Army was starting a new program. This program would send me to get my GED and then to bootcamp. I told the Marines recruiter about this and we parted ways.
I took my ASVAB and I scored a 61 I believe. Now, I know thats not the greatest score, but 50 is the lowest I can get with a GED. So I was good. I went down to MEPS and passed through everything until they weighed me. I was 2lbs overweight I believe and they sent me back to my recruiter. So we waited a week and went back and that program that would accept me without a GED was closed.
The Army recruiter told me to just wait it out because the program would open up again in a few weeks. 2 months passed and when it opened back up again I was 15lbs over my weight limit. So yeah I screwed myself there.
After that I kinda lost hope I guess and lost contact with my Army recruiter. I'm really not doing anything here and I want to serve, but I have no idea where to start now. I really dont want to play this game anymore with this program that likes to open and close at random. I've also had time to do alot of research and I think I'd rather be a Marine.
So I took the first step and looked for some GED preperation classes to make sure I was ready to take the test. Now theres only 2 programs that I could find in my area and I cant reach the one and the other is booked until Summer.
My question is now do I need the GED or would the 15 college credits be enough? I was able to enroll last time in the community college without the GED and I probably could do so again. Of course, I would need to come up with $1500 which may still be an issue.
Sorry for the long post, I'm just kind of hitting a brick wall here. Like I said I'm already 22 and I'm not getting any younger. Not that I'm that old, it's just I know I'm going to be in bootcamp with a bunch of 18 year olds lol. Thanks in advance, I felt like I just needed to tell somebody my situation.
