Lacing up my boots

I know there are about ten billion blogs out there but I have been frustrated with the lack of information for veterans who want to sort out their education. Most people don't understand that we don't want anything but a fair chance to succeed in school but it's difficult when you have been hooking and jabbing (or filling out paperwork or washing trucks or whatever) for the last few years.

So what I hope to do is lay out some really basic stuff that-in my experience-offers a lot of insight into higher education. It doesn't really matter if you are interested in vocational (job-related) training, undergraduate, or graduate education, what's important is knowing the structure of the system. Just like in the military, you need to know when someone's blowing smoke up your a$$.

The information I'll be putting up will be more applicable to those of us in California but you can probably pick out some good stuff even if you're from out-of-state. It will be pretty obvious, I think. I'll try to do my best to fact-check stuff but I'm only a knuckle-dragging Sergeant of Marines, so cut me some slack.