Pvt. Bailey (hey somebody at his unit needs to promote him to at least SPC)Plus he will get over $600 a month GI Bill and tuition assistance up to $4500 a year and his drill pay on top of that.
Posted on 01/30/2006 11:21:32 AM PST by SeeRushToldU_So
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - While other students planned to play college football, Timmy Bailey signed with a different recruiter - Uncle Sam. Now, after serving a year in Iraq, the 21-year-old private in the U.S. Army National Guard is back home. And remarkably, four years after Bailey graduated from a tiny high school in the rural Mississippi Delta, the soon-to-be sophomore has attracted more attention from college coaches than ever. "It's maturity - I'm not your average recruit," Bailey said. "I can talk better with the coaches on a one-on-one basis, and they love it." Bailey is expected to sign a binding national letter-of-intent to play linebacker at Mississippi State on Wednesday, the first day of the national signing period, and finally begin the college football career that for years had been on hold. "It's an amazing story, and he's an amazing kid who's not a kid anymore - he's an amazing man," said Jeff Horn, his coach at Riverside High School in Avon, Miss.
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"6-foot-3, 237 pounds, completed basic training in 2002 and enrolled in Mississippi Delta Community College the next year, leading the team in tackles in 2003 and drawing the attention of several Division I-A schools. But shortly before the start of his sophomore season in August 2004, he learned his unit - the Hernando, Miss.-based Troop A 98th Cavalry - was being activated for duty in Iraq. Bailey reported with his unit to the Guard's training site south of Hattiesburg, then spent roughly a year in the war-torn country driving trucks. ......."Most people had their slots already filled, and here I come out of nowhere," Bailey said. ........ "Now I have a chance to do something I love."
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ping
Ping!
Awesome story... I wish him the very best. God Bless him.
This is one guy who won't be bothered by "2-a-day" practices.
Outstanding!!!
Ask any man on the street.
When he's asked to identify a "citizen soldier", he's gonna name a member of The United States Army Reserves and National Guard.
GO ARMY !!!
I wish him well.
I sure wish this young man well. I'll bet we see him in the pro league when he finishes college. Good luck to him...
Missippi Ping, I know he's a future Bulldogs and all lol
We are a great nation and men like him are the foundation and future of our country.
Pvt. Bailey (hey somebody at his unit needs to promote him to at least SPC)Plus he will get over $600 a month GI Bill and tuition assistance up to $4500 a year and his drill pay on top of that.
Anybody with ths much smarts will be in Oxford
before you know it: ping
Oxford?
I guess he wants to lose...not that State wins much lately
hahaha
He won't need any of that.
If he is signing a letter of intent, that means the school is giving him a scholarship most likely....
Cool, I wish him great success.
I doubt that the midday heat will bother him much after what he's suffered through.
He still gets it, might as well put it to use (he will still have to go to drill, or make it up if he has a game).
yeah...
If I were him, I'd keep that money ready for his masters degree.....
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