I gave my son and daughter each one year of college to start them off. After that I helped when I could by giving each usable car and help when needed for auto services, repairs, new tires, etc. They both worked as they could and finally after about 5 years the daughter graduated, the son went active in the military. As a part timer college person he did eventually get enough hours to graduate. Both are still working but not at all in their college learning years efforts. I believe that my son is still somehow connected to the reserves, but not active. My daughter took her discharge after finishing her 8 years enlistment.
My daughter had a year of Chinese language school when she got out of basic and was in Texas taking some sort og advanced training when Iraq happened. So she was able to forget most of her Chinese and started to work in an Arabic nation. She was also somehow involved in some sort of secret service type of jobs. She kept up her secret stuff after getting out of service but now she is pretty much working on her own and operating out of her home by writing reports for money income. She seems to be doing fine with her home industry.
My son also had developed into one of the intelligence types of service. He spent many years in England, north of London, at an airbase. He likes England a lot. He also spent lots of months, maybe years, in Germany. His travels also took him into Yugoslavia, Spain, Italy, Japan, Poland, and other places I don't remember today. He said he hoped to get back to England again and visit some sights and maybe meet some of the people again. He had joined a rail road club and hopes to return their again too. I think both did well in their service days. Likely matured them both much more than sitting around in the US would have. Neither married, maybe the better for both of them. It seems like marriages don't do very well in the US anymore.
