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GED and the military.

Before you do the GED with the idea of going into the military, check with the particular branch. My son did the GED route (the State of Illinois would not allow him to take the test until after his age cohort had graduated high school, thanks to the teacher's union).

Air Force and Navy would not, at that time (2000), accept a GED, but the Army and Marines would. So he joined the Army, they sent him to language scool, and now he gets to run around with SF, which is pretty interesting (even when he's not in Iraq!).

At that time, and until a couple of months ago, if you were homeschooled, had transcripts, and had a GED, you were considered just as good as a HS grad. At least, that's how it was supposed to be.

That program ended recently. Now, you're considered tier-2 (HS dropout with GED) by the military (all branches) The navy won't mess with you, and neither will the air force. Don't know about Army/Marines. They probably would, so long as you do really well on their tests.

There's a catch, though. If you have 15 semester college hours (22 quarter hours) and a GED, you're tier-1 again.

When I was talking with the local AF recruiter about this, he thought it was stupid. The only homeschoolers he'd worked with had really high scores on the ASVAB, and were good workers. That's government for ya. Various homeschool legal associations are working to get the program back, but it'll probably take a while.