right now i know that you're looking into the military right now what's your plans for that well i've had i've been jumping around since freshman year lately i've been thinking of joining the navy because they're more in tune with academic plans since i just want to go in and get my degree and then finish my first my first contract and then i'll go and do my actual major do my actual job in civilian life what's your actual major it would be well in in the military i'd most likely be a mass communications specialist which is like the media come here so it's just bringing the war out to the people through journalism and the media basically but my major i would like to be an e s l teacher which is this teaching english as a second language so you can travel everywhere what's your second language do you prefer then  mean i'm not through in spanish by no means at all but i would love to learn and completely be fluent in all of the romance languages specifically spanish and italian which is great because that's a big populated language nowadays at that home or white influence you with spanish i mean i'm partly mexican i don't know i'm half mexican and i grew up with a little bit of a culture and a little bit of the language and i really enjoyed how i grew up with now like how did you get to think of a language being an e s l teacher with going to the military it's like a family member that is involved or what influenced you well my dad who was in the army for twenty four years then we've just kind of been a military family ever since my mom wanted to do the military but she has epilepsy so she couldn't do it so we're just we just choose the military mostly for academic and entrepreneurial position now what are you doing in high school to reach your goal in the future that in high school i'm taking classes that would help me better my career in e s l teaching rather than mass communications i might take a media class next year i'm not really sure yet but like i take a p lang or i'm thinking of taking a piece i and then taking we had i just i just needed to take classes that prepare for teaching language  told me since it's only like halfway through junior year and this is the year that you sign up for and like sign up for the military basically he told me to just wait to the end of the year and finish up my classes focus on school right now and then and most like most likely like in senior year like my older brother's doing i will be signed in as a mock like a mock like signed into the military into the navy now is he  doing anything to help him like you're following him a little bit like taking some of his classes or courses to see where he's going or are they more just for you then he is all he wants to do is now do you know anybody in the military other than family another student here a little part him she's already enrolled into the military she's just waiting for her deployment date and i do know quite a few people in the military aside from the recruitment officers and family i just kind of meeting you know it's just like any benefits of being in the military there's there's a lot actually you get quite a few like for us in our military famil my dad was in it to retirement if you retire it then you get a longer pension which is like added onto your salary whatever your civilian job is and you get two types of insurances so that it just shorter shorter it's less than the average person has to pay because it's paid for by the military and then your your education can be paid for but that's risky though because you have to go through multiple can you can it do two things where you can or you can do multiple things actually you can do the r t c program where you came go through college first and then you mimic your years in the military and then you're there all of your college and schooling is paid for see program is really hard to get into his so if you can't just get into that program you have to just enlisted and with the enlisting you would just go through the regular process and you'd probably  job and then you have specific times to go and study and like because you still need a long as it to be in the little workforce there well it's if they full time job ok for me it would be the navy and it would be on deployment and i would be on a ship like going to school basically now it would be really like that typical college experience it's still yeah but like most of my schooling is paid for but unlike requirements to like shorter hair or like makeup do you know a thing about that you are allowed to wear makeup and you're allowed to style your hair however you like the only difference is in boot camp wherever you are you are assigned to have boot camp your i choose to cut my hair because i have heard things of moldy hair and i don't want to deal with that and you are not allowed to wear makeup as a female but males they have to shave their heads and keep it clean face to face similar but only if they have the queen for they can't have any facial hair that seems pretty brittle there but you know its requirements and what do you know so far about the military like you know what what are you been doing with this how long has it been for you to apply for the military for the military and just any essay required for more scholarships well i go  want to know well i've been i've been preparing for basically since freshman year you take and as well i've been thinking as that test yeah every single year so that my score is better because you have to it's like are you smart enough for the to start the earth to see program process then that you have to go through maps which is like medical and they poke and prod everything about you you want you to live but like when i mean poke and boot camp yes it's so boot camp is normally eight to nine weeks long illness i think i don't quote me on this but if you're a marine sometimes it's longer maybe like ten to twelve weeks and all i know is that it's just depending on your type of job or your type of in the west that you decided upon in the type of like area you want to work in with your degree you will be stationed in certain all probably now that's like ten weeks to the like eight and i mean eight to nine weeks yeah have you been far from home before for that well no no no then you won't have any problem with being far from home then for that amount of time you know i think i'll be fine ok lot like how many hours a day a day of a check of the boot camp would be if the schedule starts at four in the morning it ends at nine p m four in the morning yes four thirty in the morning and i think it's twenty one hundred hours so i saw the requirements of the hours and everything for you when you have it can you go by military time which is a twenty four twenty four hour alyssa actually brought me into she brought me into a navy office just to see what would how i would think of it and honestly it's a lot better than army and air force and i'm 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protecting your family go to prevent vaccine i'm here with george allen a senior here at pizza peter sounds of high school planning on going into the military so george we just talked to your sister and she said that she joined the military because you guys come from a military family so what do you like we know you want to go military so like how we're like the reaction from your friends like we know your family except the like how about like reaction from like peers for peter's most gym and just run my miles do you want push ups sit ups and you know play around the way it's like anybody yeah it's like academically like economically well i decide to take a p physics which i'm not sure if i was a good idea or not but and i can use that degree to go back into civilian life and actually get like a job as a nuclear engineer which is a fairly low supply which is a fairly low supply nowadays so like for the field you're percent and so i won't i winged it this year and got a ninety ninety one so out of qualified and i was the dream and so the question i had for them was like where's the school how do i start the process  and just how get the ball rolling and i was actually like a week ago well i just like start to get things going in currently i have things like maps as mary properly explained prior li explained where i go and get prodded at which is come in like a like functions like algebra and science and reading and that's like the main course and then after that they have like four five subcategories where they test you on things like mechanics electricians  oh so you would have to pay for it if you want somewhere else ok so like whenever you are going through like all the process stuff like do you have to have like medical examinations or like is there any like restrictions if you take certain medications or focus on the objective and they can't help somebody who's like a preexisting problem so if you take medication yeah you're not exactly a prime target you're still dependent on the others and that's what the maps is for the maps is there to make sure you're not physically unfit to do so yeah ok so i know you said like where you're going is like kind of like a college experience but like if you wanted to you could you enroll in a college and in list at the same time where well you could go into and you can just straight up and list and then what you can do there is go to night school and want to do night school play just like acts like any normal college you just do your job which is your n o s like if you're like there you go or whatever it is you have to do yeah you do your job i do you take my classes at night and you can earn your quota out there and then you get out and then just think of the g i bill was government issue bill and what does is it's different for each branch but i think for the army on about the navy the marines or the young air force it pays for eighty five do you have like a plan whenever you're done like you're just going to go work for engineering or something like that well my situation is me personally off to six years because of like everything i' hundred thousand dollars oh wow but on that like a seventy or eighty thousand of i'll do my years and then i'll probably come back out and do some civilian work for like some firm or yeah designs like being an engineer in the military  are as good and you can do your fifteen i think you're capped off at thirty years and cancer more than thirty years and you can get a permanent pension from fifteen years you know and as you keep increasing through the years  the reserve you have or the portion that they give you is as your regular pay as what you were in the military before you retired is like i believe sixty percent and so you can you know live off that and then maybe get civilian job and make a little bit green just so i know mary said like some of the benefits you get but like do you know any more like the g i bill i told you about that you can use it for your spouse or your kids if you get any and you can get like a so what would you say to other people who like maybe thinking about this really aren't sure like joining military well it's entirely up to their choice like it's not exactly a gay for all of you knows it's kind of dangerous it's not exactly the most appealing where you go out to countries you don't know they can only be up in the blazing here in the freezing cold and assigns actually an ideal lifestyle but you know the benefits in my opinion are well worth it if they're thinking about it they can just weigh the pros and cons if you've got other options for you great if not maybe a list and you can get some you can get your life set up all right well thank you for being here with us thank you mary and georgetown for being here with us today this is an off