I'm prett lax about what constitutes a veteran. For practical purposes simply signing on the dotted line gets a certain amount of credit. If someone says the flunked out at MEPS I give credit for joining.
They don't get vets status but they get credit for joining because they committed themselves and that says a lot in my book.
On the other hand when someone says they 'almost joined' they go straight to the bottom of the pile with me. It's 100% total bull$hit.
I overheard someone saying that they 'almost joined' the Marines but it wasn't my conversation so I stayed quite.
Still, it reminded me of a classmate that was an 'almost joined' when in fact he was at a liberal college protesting the Vietnam war. I tore him a new one for that crock.
Almost joined my a$$!
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