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Ray, Thanks for your response. A lot of high schools don't have JROTC, and that's a shame but explains a lot. Part of my work as an analyst is to examine military training on a very broad basis: I look at everything from JROTC to executive war college courses for O-7s to O-10s. DEP is an area I don'...

Ranger Saltbitch, Thanks much for your reply. While I have to admit coming from the kind of college-boy background you describe, I share your views that a degree alone won't make a man a true leader. Indeed, I see a bigger problem with the staff corps direct commissions than ROTC, where in the latte...

Hey Ray, I apologize if this is the wrong form (or thread), but there's a question I've been wanting to ask the DEP kids for some time: Why have you guys elected DEP over JROTC in high school? I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but when I was in high school in the 1980s, everyone I knew who was...

Ranger2 and Scout78, thank you both for your replies. My point, however, wasn't so much the merits of a college degree, but my personal desire to see more people who start off in the military (often prior to college or to finishing a degree) stay with the military. This has been a matter close to my...

The comment made about most of the DEPs being high school kids who aren't really giving anything up struck a chord with me. While it's very true, it is these young men who need to think long and hard about their goal to become a ranger. I've also been struck by how many of you do not mention JROTC o...

I have to second what Earthpig had to say on the subject of respect and different jobs. There are a vast number of jobs that I would not respect, per se, but I can find examples of someone in those fields who has earned my respect through his or her performance. However, I DO expect that people in c...

My great-uncle was Navy in the Pacific and other than Midway, I'm not sure what his time over their included, although one of his daughters has just put together a little history of his life and our family during WWII so when I read that, I should have a better picture of things. Like many, he's nev...

Yep, Ellsworth AFB was SAC (now ACC) and therefore had the ICBMs and long-range bombers. So did Minot AFB in North Dakota. My family's always been involved (on both my mom and dad's sides) in the military, but I don't know exactly where (or even what service) some of my cousins were in because I hav...