u/ProfessionalGreen606

We are apart of a church group together and a guy from it is hosting a Firepit tomorrow at his house with 20+ people. We are not dating yet but have been talking for around 3 weeks now. No one knows about us yet, because we are not together yet. We have hung out twice together just us before, one was a concert in the city and one was a movie. Should I hang out with her, sit next to her, talk to her a lot, etc, or just treat her as a friend for the night and keep it on the DL? I want to play this right because she is my first potential girlfriend and I don’t want to mess this up. What should I do?

Last night I was telling my parents my plan to contact recruiters from both the Army and the Marines when I turn 17 and learn more about the military. They really want me to go to college and told me that they would not sign off on allowing me to enlist before 18 and won’t support me if I choose to enlist after I turn 18. I come from a pretty well off family and both getting into college and affording college wouldn’t be an issue for us. This is really hard for me because I have wanted to join the Army pretty much my whole life. They want me to go to college first and then they would allow me to join as an officer but I want to join enlisted and then later on go to college and maybe transition into the officer route. My dream is to be an Army Ranger. My parents also think I would be wasting my potential going infantry. Should I give up on joining the Army right out of High School and just go to college first or should I keep looking into the Army right out of High School?

I am 16 and I have around a 3.5-3.6 GPA. My family is pretty well off and I could definitely afford and get into college. However, I have always been interested in the military. I used to make battles for weeks on end with toy soldiers when I was younger, My dad works for GD which is a defense company and I have always been interested in that, and just overall I have always thought that the military was really cool. If I were to join, I would join the army infantry with hopefully an option 40. The plan would be to spend my junior enlisted years in (hopefully) the Rangers and then once I reach E5 or E6 I would go to college, become an officer, and finish out my 20. I know college first would make more sense and lead to more money but I just keep wanting to be Infantry. So should I join the army first or go to college first?