Back-to-school boot camps help veterans in the classroom

How shall we interpret this: “The biggest challenges in transitioning to life as a student … have been not having the same intellectual foundation as my peers,” Henderson told USA TODAY College in an email. “While most traditional students are coming straight from successfully navigating high school, I have had to shake off some rust.”

To be honest, I should have served in the military first instead of waiting to enlist until after graduating from college and law school. I could have used the military lessons in discipline to be a better student. As it was I coasted through my studies. I had a natural talent for passing tests with minimal effort. It was simply a continuation of the same bad habits that I used to coast through high school.

Of course, in those days, the mission of schools (grade school, high school, colleges and universities) was to educate. Now they are used to indoctrinate students in an ideology that is largely counter-intuitive to the military mind. Indeed, I have often wondered at how those who serve first deal with their professors and classmates who worship at the altar of Leftism while they were out fighting for truth, justice, and the American way. Thus, I can well-imagine how a "boot camp" such as the one described in this article would be important if its prime mission is to teach our best young men and women how to shut up and submit.

It's possible this may benefit a veteran.

I would LOVE a back to school boot camp, of sorts...I too was one of those students who received straight A's all throughout school with ease....test taking skills were a natural ability of mine, however, unlike, CPT Jack Durish, I did venture straight into the Marine Corps right out of high school and at this point, sometimes, I wish I had gone to college first, because, nowadays, college is most definitely nothing like an extension of high school...rarely are there any tests to take, but instead, novels to read, papers to write, (collaborated and individual) and PowerPoint presentations to give, none of which, at this caliber, did I do in the Marine Corps nor a million years ago in high school. If I could attend a back to school boot camp, amongst other veterans, like me, I am more than certain my anxiety level that I currently have while attending college fulltime as a fulltime working adult, wouldn't be quite as heightened as it is now.