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Originally Posted by retmil46
Retired Navy enlisted myself, 20 years submarine nuclear power.
What's quoted above is the BEST advice posted so far on this thread. My only addition to this would be to have someone who has served before, who is familiar with dealing with recruiters, and whom you trust, to go with your son and be there the whole time listening while he is dealing with the recruiter.
Some recruiters seemingly have no morals and could give a crap what type of military job they sign people up for, as long as they get the feather in their cap for signing someone up for an undermanned MOS/NEC. When they see said young person come walking in with a veteran in tow - particularly someone from the same branch of service - the recruiter knows he'd be well advised to stick to the truth and speak honestly, or said veteran will call BS and likely call the whole deal off.
Having someone with prior service go with your son to talk to the recruiter, will help ensure that your son will be able to get into a program/military occupation that matches up with his prior education and experience, something he's interested in, and offers training he will be able to make use of later on - and not get hornswaggled by the recruiter and signed up to be nothing more than a grunt rifleman.
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X2- Make sure he reads and re reads everything that is put in front of him.
I too spent a chunk of my life in Uncle Sams Canoe Club.
Submerged as a nuc power then a missile tech(retmil46 that is a long story someday I will explain). If it sounds too good to be true IT IS!
Have him talk to the navy-If he already has acouple years of college under his belt, He should be able to get in the NROTC with little of no fanfair. If he gets in that route following that up with Naval Nuclear Power He would be guarenteed a job almost as soon as he walked out. I work in power geeneration an it is polluted with nucs and boiller techs and machinist mates
My $.02