Category: The Air Force Kid

It’s 3:19 AM, my time. 0319 hours, my son’s time. He’ll be getting up at 0345 to head for MEPS for his day of specialty testing. He passed the MEPS enlistment process yesterday. It was, according to my son, tedious and occasionally embarrassing and LOOOONG and full of hurry-up-and-wait, but he got through it. Took…

Incidentally, (at least to you, though certainly not to me), our grown-up son is at MEPS today. That’s the acronym for Military Entrance Processing Command. He’s going Air Force. He’s done a significant amount of work to get the opportunity to do this; from acquiring college credits, to losing a few pounds, to working out…