Selective services

[Rino]

     Apparently your mom and dad were huge USMC fans, naming their kid Lance Corporal 

[dedalos]

I filed for my FASFA and was declined due to this matter. I'm fully up to speed now on what it is and what it's for, but since I am now 28 years of age, I'm to late and crap outa luck....???  I'm writing a letter to SSS now to hopefully have this issue resolved. I'm more or less curious if this is a rather unheard of problem. I'm from a small town with a graduating class of 60 students and a small staffed high school. (and hearing difficulty) How could I have missed such a crucial document?! as of now It may take years more to get a 4 year degree. < discouraging and depressing. am I really stuck laying brick next to grungy old broken back bar supporting masons? makes me want to drink too..... looking for a light at the end of this tunnel.   

My advice for what it is worth.  Start with a 6 month certification in something IT related (IT only because I know my way around the field).  While you do that, save as much money as you can so when you are done you can move to a bigger city where jobs are.  Once you land the first job, most if not all companies will pay for you to go to college as long as it is somewhat related to something they could use you for.

If that option does not work for you and you really do have very low income, you should be able to go college or at list a 2 year degree for almost free.  Look it up, there is money out there for everything.  If you want, send me some info and I ll look some things up for you.

I was I was too old at 26 so don't feel too bad lol.  There are better options if all you want is to go to school.  I'd leave the military for those that join because they want to protect their country.

[68ZooM]

i registered for the selective service back in 1978, we already knew back then we had to signup at 18, amazing how many kids today have no clue that they have to signup at 18

[gyrene81]

selective service is another shining example of government stupidity...registered when i turned 18...6 months later got a notice to register, did it again...enlisted and served 4 years...got notices to register for 2 years after i got out...they finally stopped after some phone calls.


to the op, read the information on the sss site about men over 26...

http://www.sss.gov/Status.html

see if you can get a status letter which should allow you a waiver for finaid

[VAMPIRE 2?]

ok I'm actually in school now, after being denied financial aid,  I went ahead and paid for the semester myself. I'm actually reseaching "SSS" and doing an english paper on the matter. But may 15 when this semester is over I have work lined up so I can earn enough to pay for the next semester. so far each semester is going to cost me between $4-$6,000... I don't know how school ever got so expensive, but it is do-able. For me in particular it has been a challenge because I worked for 11 years  and 3 of which I was self employed. I see school as a step back in attemp to take a giant leep forword. So I was in hopes of getting into school FULLY and getting it done ASAP. After haveing finacial aid pulled from me, it has been a huge confidence breaker.    I always push ahead, I WILL get my degree regardless, however long it takes. but as for "SSS" what a royal pain in the rear. once I have enough in my part and defence, I will take them on in attempt to get what I need.  (finger crossed)

[dedalos]

ok I'm actually in school now, after being denied financial aid,  I went ahead and paid for the semester myself. I'm actually reseaching "SSS" and doing an english paper on the matter. But may 15 when this semester is over I have work lined up so I can earn enough to pay for the next semester. so far each semester is going to cost me between $4-$6,000... I don't know how school ever got so expensive, but it is do-able. For me in particular it has been a challenge because I worked for 11 years  and 3 of which I was self employed. I see school as a step back in attemp to take a giant leep forword. So I was in hopes of getting into school FULLY and getting it done ASAP. After haveing finacial aid pulled from me, it has been a huge confidence breaker.    I always push ahead, I WILL get my degree regardless, however long it takes. but as for "SSS" what a royal pain in the rear. once I have enough in my part and defence, I will take them on in attempt to get what I need.  (finger crossed)

4 to 6K?  What school is it?

[Shuffler]

Maybe he is an out of state student.

A&M is about 15k a year if your from Texas. My Daughter is in her second year there.

[dedalos]

Maybe he is an out of state student.

A&M is about 15k a year if your from Texas. My Daughter is in her second year there.

Yeah, I know, but I figured someone looking for money for college would not do the out of state thing.  I was an out of the country student so I am very familiar with the prices lol.

Best solution is a year community college, get a job, and have them pay for the rest.

[Banshee7]

ok I'm actually in school now, after being denied financial aid,  I went ahead and paid for the semester myself. I'm actually reseaching "SSS" and doing an english paper on the matter. But may 15 when this semester is over I have work lined up so I can earn enough to pay for the next semester. so far each semester is going to cost me between $4-$6,000... I don't know how school ever got so expensive, but it is do-able. For me in particular it has been a challenge because I worked for 11 years  and 3 of which I was self employed. I see school as a step back in attemp to take a giant leep forword. So I was in hopes of getting into school FULLY and getting it done ASAP. After haveing finacial aid pulled from me, it has been a huge confidence breaker.    I always push ahead, I WILL get my degree regardless, however long it takes. but as for "SSS" what a royal pain in the rear. once I have enough in my part and defence, I will take them on in attempt to get what I need.  (finger crossed)

I wish my school was only $4-6,000 a semester.  Mine is only $15,000/semester.  The FAFSA didn't really help me much, either (and both of my parents income is pretty low).

[VAMPIRE 2?]

<--Purdue University Calumet  is in North west Indiana... my first semester was $3,800 and one class was a catch up or high school level (non-credit) <--been out for 11 years, so I had to catch up a little...still had to pay for it.  My major is Aeronautical/astronautical engineering... lots of math 

I have a goal of working at or something simular to Boeing, Rolls Royce, Nasa, something airframe or propulsion related. or even aerodynamics related. even if it's computer designing for....

[allaire]

i registered for the selective service back in 1978, we already knew back then we had to signup at 18, amazing how many kids today have no clue that they have to signup at 18

Not really a lot of them know that are supposed to sign up for it.  They just don't care about it and their typical response is, "I'm not gonna join the military and I ain't gonna be drafted.

[Babalonian]

Registered for SS 3-weeks after 9-11 and two days after my 18th birthday.  Was a lotta huffin and puffin about it from a couple friends given the timing of the matter.  Wasn't any thought to me, and if I get drafted someday I'll go. 

My grandfather was a welder before he turned 18 during WWII, as the youngest sibling all his brothers not disqualified had enlisted or been drafted already.  His company had aloted to it's employees (and bought the rest it needed) get-outa-the-draft cards since they were welding tanks during the war, and I think that these waivers needed to be renewed every 3-6 months.  His company had bought a waiver for him twice, once before he turned 18 and a second time after that.  He had made numerous requests to not have a waiver, he wanted to enlist but at the times couldn't because his company had already essentialy paid off the government to not put him in the services (and he couldn't just quit and have no income to help the household while waiting to be eligible to join up).  After the second time he had to go around his foreman to the boss of the factory, who couldn't understand why my grandfather didn't want to get a waiver and to get drafted.  He told him he wanted to because all his brothers and friends were already serving, it was his duty.  The boss agreed.  Two weeks after his second waiver expired, the SS sent him the congradulatory letter he had been waiting and trying so hard for.

[ozrocker]

i registered for the selective service back in 1978, we already knew back then we had to signup at 18, amazing how many kids today have no clue that they have to signup at 18
[/quote ]Agreed.  Same Here (1978) 
Besides knowing we could buy booze, we knew we had to register at 18

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[Penguin]

Registered for SS 3-weeks after 9-11 and two days after my 18th birthday.  Was a lotta huffin and puffin about it from a couple friends given the timing of the matter.  Wasn't any thought to me, and if I get drafted someday I'll go. 

My grandfather was a welder before he turned 18 during WWII, as the youngest sibling all his brothers not disqualified had enlisted or been drafted already.  His company had aloted to it's employees (and bought the rest it needed) get-outa-the-draft cards since they were welding tanks during the war, and I think that these waivers needed to be renewed every 3-6 months.  His company had bought a waiver for him twice, once before he turned 18 and a second time after that.  He had made numerous requests to not have a waiver, he wanted to enlist but at the times couldn't because his company had already essentialy paid off the government to not put him in the services (and he couldn't just quit and have no income to help the household while waiting to be eligible to join up).  After the second time he had to go around his foreman to the boss of the factory, who couldn't understand why my grandfather didn't want to get a waiver and to get drafted.  He told him he wanted to because all his brothers and friends were already serving, it was his duty.  The boss agreed.  Two weeks after his second waiver expired, the SS sent him the congradulatory letter he had been waiting and trying so hard for.

Let me guess, he ate a Mauser round on his second day in the field.

-Penguin

[halo342]

Let me guess, he ate a Mauser round on his second day in the field.

-Penguin

No. Just....no. Do you even think before you post, or is it all impulse?