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To: 9YearLurker
Dad couldn’t show up for a few weeks first, with mom and kids to follow?

Well, the school training would be TDY (temporary duty) and family wouldn't be allowed to come along. Once graduated (if graduated), there's no telling where the "recruiter" would be sent to perform duties, nor any pre-determined duration of that recruiting assignment, often not making it worthwhile to pack up and move the whole family ...

110 posted on 11/04/2023 11:16:16 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Everyone thinks you were executed. Stay dead - you'll live longer. (A. Breakspear, "Carnival Row"))
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To: BlueLancer

But that is kind of what the military sign up for, is it not?

Presumably preferable to being sent to war?


111 posted on 11/04/2023 11:19:09 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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