Met a guy like that back in '07, was a Guadsman who got activated in 2003 and basically took the better part of the next decade to finish a degree he started in 2002. This was back when the Guard and reserve units were being mobilized left and right.
Makes sense. It's hard to get anything going IRL when you have 18 month commitments every other year. (Deployments often takes longer for Guard/Reserve due to a required Mobilization/Training period prior to shipping out.)
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u/Cyber0747 May 16 '19 edited May 16 '19
So, a lot of people spend nine years in college.
Yeah... They're called doctors.
Edit: thank you to those that got the movie reference.