research for AKOTAS

When a JROTC enlistee graduates high school, does s/he ordinarily proceed directly to basic training or to college? If basic, does s/he proceed to college from there, to officer training, or to a tour of duty as an enlisted or non-com? How much choice does the enlistee get in where college/training/duty is assigned - in other words, does an involved couple have the opportunity to request the same college/posting, and if so how likely is one to get what one requested? Is "enlistee" the correct word for the post-high school ROTC officer candidate? What would their rank, or rank range, be after graduation, and what would it be while they were still in high school? If one is eighteen but also guardian of one's foster sibling till December when he turns eighteen, would one be posted to one's hometown or would one's posting be put off till 2007? If one won't be eighteen till August, what effect does that have on one's timetable?

Bastards.

Bastards. Goddam bastards.

Didn't I say in an essay here on the nature of spoilers that nothing from the first third of the episode is is a spoiler, something like that? What's the obvious corrolary? Anything from later than a third into the episode is a spoiler. For instance, anything from the last five minutes of the episode.

This is the second year in a row that the ads for the Gilmore Girls season finale have included scenes or giveaways of the last shot of the episode.

Goddam bastards.