[ohioWfan]

We sure have, Suzi!

Eric enlisted in August, just two weeks before 9/11 and before his senior year in high school.

Now, even with two years 'off' for the war, he's almost done with his junior year in college.

Unfortunately, he'll still have a semester left when he gets deployed again, but plans to get that last semester in after he gets back.

[SuziQ]

My nephew, Alexander, was an Apache Longbow pilot, and returned from Afghanistan late last summer. He decided he wanted to join Special Forces, so he went into training for that, completing it not too long ago. His mother may not be too thrilled about it, but my brother, Gerry, is.

Gerry was SO envious of Alexander for being able to fly helicopters. Gerry is an AF Academy graduate, and at the time of his graduation, the Army was offering to train AF pilots on helos. He SO wanted to join that program, but the AF wouldn't let him. He ended up flying C-130's, and stayed in for 10 years, then went to commercial airline flying. He worked for NASA for a while, now he works for the NRO. ;o)