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Originally Posted by HappyTexan
Believe it or not that is a big selling point used by the military for joining up.
GI Bill, VA mortgage, etc. are used by recruiters for both active duty and reserve duty recruitment.
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Yes, living off the govt. teat for the rest of one's life.
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Originally Posted by anifani821
Sign your life away? There are some of us who consider military service an honorable pursuit.
My hubby received a direct commission in the Army Medical Services Corp (Viet Nam). My dad was a Marine (Korea) who used the GI bill to finance his undergrad degree.
Your attitude is insulting, sir. God bless those who choose to serve all of us by choosing voluntary service in the military.
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Well, in some cases you DO sign your life away. With these constant wars, people DO get killed.
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Originally Posted by zz4guy
Why does everybody assume College is the pathway to prosperity? Most people I know who went to college are saddled with a huge studen loan debt and are making not much more than their GED friends. College and the student loan system is just another way for Washington to tap into our wealth.
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Not the topic of the thread.
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Originally Posted by andrea3821
I'm living proof of it. My $5k student loan went for my last year of college. That was 14 credits one semester and 15 the next. That paid all of tuition and fees plus books, plus I got a refund check both semesters for like $700. So, it's less than $20k actually. Note that I was taking mostly online classes, which entail an extra fee per credit hour, and also taking classes that had lab fees. Like I said, I don't know what schools y'all are going to but getting a 4 year education for about $20k is definitely doable.
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It depends, it depends, it depends. The cheapest school in the Denver area is Metro State College, and you could barely do four years there for $20K, just for tuition, if you were to start right now.
Cost & Financial Aid | Prospective Student Information | About | Metro State (http://www.mscd.edu/prospective/cost/ - broken link)
Then there are books, lab fees, supplies and all the other that goes with going to college. Most people in the Denver metro could probably go to Metro and live at home, but if you're living somewhere for free, that's financial aid, too.