How do I tell my mom that I want to join the army through the Future

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Soldiers Program? I want to join the army. I just finished my junior year and am only 17 so I need her permission. I have wanted to join for a long time but I have never told my mom because I know she would call me stupid and say that I should join the Air Force instead. But I don't want to join the Air Force. I want to be an army MP and most the time you don't get that MOS because it's already full. But if I did the Future Soldiers or DEP(whatever its called) I would get to choose my MOS early and my spot would be secured. My mom thinks I am lazy and a child not capable of being an adult. She underestimates me. I can be lazy but when its something I want like this I do whatever I need to. She'll also tell that this is just a spur of the moment thing and she's never heard me talking about it before. That's because I already know what she would say. So how do I explain to her that I love the army and want to join?
It doesn't help that she just found a pregnancy test in my room. I am not a ho. Okay I had sex one time with my boyfriend who I have been dating for three years and I thought I was pregnant and now she thinks that I'm some slut or something. I've already explained this to her but she'll probably still be mad for awhile and not want to listen to what I say.
So any advice would be much appreciated.
 
Start out by discussing what you are going to do when you graduate high school.

If college isn't an option due to grades or lack of interest, that leaves.... what?

This is where you introduce the idea of the military.

Now, when one is considering the military, the SMART way to pick a branch is to figure out what JOB you want to do, which you have. Army you can sign right up to be an MP, but (last I knew) that wasn't an option for any other branch.

Then talk about all the benefits of military service. College tuition, see the world, free CLEP tests (college credit for taking a test), work experience, possible career, yada yada yada.

If you can get that far, explain the benefits of the FSP over waiting till you're 18 and can sign the papers without her.

Do be realistic about the MP's. A lot of what MP's do is guarding gates and doing convoy escorts. Not only is it not always like cop shows on TV, that's actually a minority of what MP's do.

You might want to consider taking Judo until you actually go in, it could well come in handy if you DO get sent to a unit that does real police work.
 
show her you have a plan, and this is not just a whim, show her the good aspects of the military, like school, money, travel, independence,

show her a plan just like you would if you would be going away for school, and also insure you have good info on the whole deployment/combat thing. that way she knows, and you know what you are getting yourself into.
 
You can explain to you mom it is what you want. As a last resort, you can wait until you 18 and enlist yourself. You still get to choose your MOS and if they tell you the job you want is full and there are no slot available, then tell them you are not enlisting. That is what I did back when I joined. I told them I wanted to be an MP and they said there were no slots available. I told the NCO at MEPS that I was not enlisting unless I got MP and to contact my recruiter when there was a slot available. I started walking out of his office and he stopped me and told me he would see what he could do. 15 minutes later, there was a slot available for MP. Funny how that works.
 
Get the papers from the school and say mom I want you to sign this. I want to try something new and after all it will be my future. Just tell her this is something you have been wanting to do for a long time now and she wont have to pay for college. I think the air force is good too. They have military police also. You might check into it. If this is like rotc I think you will go in with a rank. It pays a little more like that.
 
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