I’ve been out for a while and the rules may likely have changed, but when I was at USNA if you quit after the first class bell rang in your Junior year, you immediately became an enlisted person with a 4 year obligation. More recently, I’ve seen some stories of quitters getting out by repaying the estimated cost of their education.
That’s how it was at Air Force also (’73). Once you started classes as a Junior you’re on the hook. Of course, he may qualify to evade it if there are special circumstances because of his “disability”.
Yes, that indeed was the way it was. May still be that way now, but there seems to be too much political correctness now to enforce any “rules.” Women can get out without serving or paying back because they are a special class, same goes for religion and mental problems. The only thing this guy didn’t use was being transgendered or female. Had he done this within a year or two of arriving, I would say fine, but he is playing the system and using the, now big, anti-religion card to get away with it and receive a free education.
It was still that way when I graduated in ‘89.
But hey he’s a mule tamer whoop whatchya gonna do...
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