15 hours is 1 full-time semester of 12 hours, and half a summer 2-class schedule. That's about 9 months or less.
...We SERIOUSLY need to loosen our insane enlistment standards.
Agree. I think we should have either a universal draft, or you get to vote once you've done one hitch in the military, an equivalent time as a first responder, or for those not physically able but mentally capable, in some equally difficult (relative to the disability) service, a la Heinlein's STARSHIP TROOPERS.
I was Air Force, not Army. I graduated BASIC at 5'll" and 120 lbs. It wouldn't have been that difficult for a bigger guy to assault or rape me, but he'd better clear out fast afterwards and not let me ever find out who he was.
My dad was one of those little guys, and before my growth spurt he taught me a bunch about dealing with bigger guys. Hit them with a brick from behind first, and you can do about anything you want to them afterwards. I favor castration with a dull rusty spoon for rapists of any sort.
I did enlist during the last years of the war in Vietnam. They were still taking just about any warm body at that time. Including me.
WRM, MSgt, USAF(Ret.) 1973-1997
Went to college for 3.5 years, 2 for welding and another year and a half for automotive mechanics. The army lists it as 14.3 total.
I figured since I’m a Louisiana white boy, I was probably the wrong color for my black recruiter and black meps physicians. It’s Louisiana, remember.