I will not try to talk your son out of joining the Marines. I do think the next decade is not going to be a good time to be in the service. The budget cutting is going to be bad. Some young men and women will pay for that with their lives. They will be some where and be unprepared because of money issues. I have seen it happen too many times. I got out when Carter did it in the 1970s. Men lost their lives because of bean counter mistakes. The book keepers just get to make a correction in their work, the man fighting just gets killed.
The Marines can make a better man out of him or he can get nothing out of it. It all is what you do when you get there. If he joins the wrong, party hard, living fast, unit then he will not learn much but how to drink and raise he!!.
As for his MOS. I still think diesel anything in the service will not be much of a career advancement in civilian life. The bigger demand will be for all things electronic. Not hardware but the systems, programing and networking. The hardware is all over seas anyway now. A lot of the programing is too but the networking and system maintenance is in demand.
If he scored that high then he needs to be looking at something better than a blue collar job/career. The wage difference is just going to keep widening.
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