Congratulations to your son, to you and your entire family. I thank him for his service to our country. I, too, felt very proud of my oldest son when he finished MCRD in San Diego and we attended the ceremonies in 2008. They really turn children into warrior men and women. The transformation was remarkable.
The transformation IS astonishing. My son decided to enlist when he bombed integral calculus last spring after acing differential calculus in the fall last year. He came to me and told me he was enlisting because he flunked calculus for all the wrong reasons, and decided that remedial action was required. His remedy may have been a bit severe, but danged if he didn’t see it through.