“That is interesting and certainly a change from when I was in high school. There was two Sailors going through boot camp between junior and senior year and then finishing up high school. I did not know about the program or I would have done that too.”
I was essentially clueless about military service while I was in high school, except for a couple of adult friends who were Marines during WWII & Vietnam. Then, mostly after graduation, talking to a HS friend about his dad, who was a USAF Warrant Officer. Then I walked by the Recruiting Office in my home town, on my way to my favorite bookstore with, literally, my last dollar in my pocket after getting layed off my first job.
$326.10 a month, three hots and a cot, the sign said. I went in, took the tests, and signed up for the Delayed Entree program in the USAF. Reported for Basic October 24th, 1973...
And the rest is, as they say, history. ;)
OS
Okay, they made you wait for your three hots, but how long did the starvation period last?