It looks like homeschooled kids are treated the same as individuals with GED's because their attrition rates are comperable (which isn't a good return on the investment in time and money to train them). It looks like they look more favorably on homeschooled kids if they do a semester-worth of college. From what I can tell, homeschoolers can get it, but they have to have higher test scores than the kids that graduated from traditional high schools.
http://www.cna.org/documents/D0009351.A2.pdf
It kind of makes sense. If you go to a regular high school, you learn to work in a more formalized environment that you have minimal control over. Your parents enforce discipline, but it's not the same as having to respect and obey someone you don't really know because of their position.
At any rate, good luck with the kid trying to get in. It looks like it should be doable....just a little more challenging. If the army is struggling as much as the MSM claims to meet recruiting numbers, you'd think it should be doable, though. I'm sure they'll be great once they can get in there and show the military their stuff.
It looks like homeschooled kids are treated the same as individuals with GED's because their attrition rates are comperable (which isn't a good return on the investment in time and money to train them). It looks like they look more favorably on homeschooled kids if they do a semester-worth of college. As an aside--the Navy Nuclear Program was paying for a years worth of college for students (and paying them E-1 pay and benefits) to reduce the attrition rate once they entered the nuclear pipeline (I met several graduates of that program). This program is very successful and may be employed in other situations where training has a high attrition rate. Economically this may make sense only for nuclear and aviation rates (due to the very high cost of training) but I believe it is showing a trend that the military wants a decent education for prospective recruits.
**Your parents enforce discipline, but it's not the same as having to respect and obey someone you don't really know because of their position.**
Many, if not most, homeschooled high schoolers take academic courses in a coop situation and are accountable to their instructor. This instructor is either a home educator with experience/expertise in the area of the course being taught...or a college level instructor *at* the local JC.