I was hoping to go to a military academy.
However my grades are to low, I'm thinking of joining ROTC as soon as I can then when I turn 18 hop right into the Army.
My brother is in the Army now and my dad is former Air Force, while my oldest brother detests anything militant.
We sort of have a military background myself in that from the age of 3-10 I had a stepbrother who would usually make us march around the neighborhood, or give us broomsticks or wooden rifles and have us twirl them around like Marines, make us go with him on seemingly endless adventures to the Mesa, help him fix his car and yell at us all the time. I would constantly beg my dad to break up with his wife and move out, but that took years. I also asked my dad to atleast have my Oldest brother stand up for us even a little. Every time he did my stepbrother would always beat him up. He would make me and my brother fight him or fight each other.
However when my stepbrother tried to fight one of his friends in front of us he would always lose, and it pleased me more than anything to see him suffer. Around that time I realized that he just took all the anger he had from people making fun of him at school out on us. Soon he spiraled to drugs and before I knew it I was free! My stepmother soon started drinking herself to sleep and I got to stay up! Now after 6 years of living with my dad and his flip flopping girlfriends I look back and realize that all the "discipline" we endured made us closer, helps me work harder now, and may prove useful in my enlistment.
My dads history is that he was a sharpshooter I think in the Airforce but was honorably discharged because he was "trying to save a marriage."
For now my brother is stationed in Missouri being trained as a combat engineer, and comes back in about 26 days.
I believe a main influence in his enlistment was a friend of his who joined, after he came back he completely different.