kane

So here is something that is so sad it is laughable.

About a year ago he and a buddy were going to join the Marines. He had been arrested a few times and had legal issues, but the recruiter told him that if he had all those cleared up by the time he turned 18 it would be fine.

So he takes the ASVAB test and scores so badly that they wouldn't take him. The recruiter actually thought he was messing with him and trying to score badly. The recruiter told him where to go in order to get a study guide and what to study so he could take it again in a few months and improve his score. Of course that never happened. We are finding out now that his mom did all his homework for him and he is basically 18 years old and he reads and writes at about a 5th grade level.

He was told he could still likely go in the Army and either be infantry or do some real basic task if he could get his score up just a few points, but he has now decided he doesn't want to do that so short of a judge forcing him (which may well happen) he won't be going in the military any time soon.

I hate to say it, but the reality is that he will likely end up in jail actually doing some time in the next few years. He smokes weed every day and yet has no money. His mom has been giving him money, but now that the divorce is happening that source is gone. Most of his friends are sick of him because he has no job and is always "borrowing" money so they have cut him off. That leaves him with committing crimes to get cash. I won't be shocked to seem him locked up for some crime related to that in the not too far off future.