Originally Posted by Michael256
That’s great but a lot of the people on athletic scholarships go for athletics and they just get whatever degree is “easy” for them to keep playing ball. Communications, Political Science, and Business seem to be what a lot of people pick.

Absolutely nothing wrong with getting it paid for by the military. For the sheer amount of hijinks and bullshit a peace time military member has to go through, they deserve every penny. Doubly so for a wartime military.

But what about people who aren’t very athletically inclined or fit for service? I’m neither, as I always sucked at sports, and when I tried to join the NG, I got stuck on waiver hold until I gave up, over some ADHD meds I had not even taken in years.

I promise you what I’m doing in IT and Cyber is where my gift is, but I had to wait until I was almost 30 to start advancing my career. I have heard of people like my cousins’ husbands who work for a galvanizing plant being sent to school for manager positions but that is exceedingly rare.

Another point I’d like to make is it’s not JUST about student loans. But the overall price of tuition. Look at what tuition costs in China, and see that they can go all year to a private school for less than the cost of an in state American student going to a public school for a single semester. It will be no wonder when China wholly surpasses us in tech and science, because the barriers are just so much lower, combined with their population of billions.


You will get no argument from me about the cost of tuition and the waste and lack of good outcomes in our higher education systems. They could use a good dose of DOGE.
And; they should have skin in the game on student loans.