On top of today being a pivotal day in US history, I gave my son to the Corps.
Over the last six months, I have made my son visit all the branches of the military. I didn’t want to place any undue pressure in his decision making, so we visited all of them.
Over the weekend, he made the announcement to join the Marines. Today, he and I signed the paperwork and he signed up in the delayed entry program. It all isn’t finalized, but he tentatively ships in June. Like my father before me, and his father before him, I signed on the dotted line, full well knowing of the challenges ahead of my only son.
To say I am really proud right now is likely the understatement of 2020.
Update- despite my attempting to edge him into an Intelligence contract, looks like he’s going recon.This message has been edited. Last edited by: jljones,
"It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it works out for them"
November 03, 2020, 05:11 PM
rat2306
Semper Fi to your son!
November 03, 2020, 05:13 PM
roberth
Congratulations!
I wish him the best.
November 03, 2020, 05:14 PM
oddball
Congrats!
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
November 03, 2020, 05:15 PM
bionic218
Congrats to you both!
November 03, 2020, 05:19 PM
darthfuster
Thank you for raising such a man.
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier
November 03, 2020, 05:21 PM
john crusher
Congratulations to your Son for deciding to Serve his Country ! As a Vet I am very pleased that he cares to join the ranks .
November 03, 2020, 05:37 PM
Pale Horse
Semper Fi to you both!
“Everybody wants a Sig in the sheets but a Glock on the streets.” -bionic218 04-02-2014
November 03, 2020, 05:37 PM
SigFan
Congratulations on raising a responsible, patriotic son. I imagine it must be difficult to let him go as an only son, but you already know that freedom is worth protecting, and that requires willing and able American men and women to answer the call as he has selflessly chosen to do.
Godspeed to him and to your family!
Regards From Sunny Tucson, SigFan
NRA Life - IDPA - USCCA - GOA - JPFO - ACLDN - SAF - AZCDL - ASA
"Faith isn't believing that God can; it's knowing that He will." (From a sign on a church in Nicholasville, Kentucky)
I hope I will be as open and fair minded with my son when he starts his search.
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November 03, 2020, 05:52 PM
ArtieS
Outstanding!
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.
November 03, 2020, 05:53 PM
ASKSmith
Semper Fi, JLJones. Just sit back and enjoy his tales of adventure. You’ve raised a fine, young man.
My son ships out next June. He’s going Army, but has an Option 40 with RASP. Time will tell...
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November 03, 2020, 05:56 PM
sns3guppy
My son just got out, and is now doing the exact job he did while in, at the base next door.
November 03, 2020, 05:57 PM
c1steve
Congratulations! If only half the US fathers and sons were half as dedicated as you are, the world would be a better place.
-c1steve
November 03, 2020, 05:59 PM
feersum dreadnaught
Awesome. I'm sure you are proud. I see it as trusting him to the Corps, but giving him to the United States.
PS - I assume you are sending him off to Corps so he can finally receive some quality firearms training?
NRA Life Member - "Fear God and Dreadnaught"
November 03, 2020, 06:02 PM
thomjb
Congratulations Dad!
Thom
"Tulta munille!" NRA Benefactor Life Member NRA Certified Instructor NRA Range Safety Officer SAF Life Member
November 03, 2020, 06:03 PM
sjtill
Congratulations, Jerry! I can only imagine the pride you must feel...and much more beside.
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