Annville, Pa.
Brittany Vojta survived boot camp. It was high school she couldn't make it through.So the National Guard ran her through a program it started this year in Pennsylvania for privates who drop out of high school after having joined the military.
In an old barracks at Fort Indiantown Gap, the 18-year-old Cleveland woman and other dropouts spent three intensive weeks in class this summer to help them pass their GEDs — so they would meet the minimal educational requirement to remain in the Guard.
Straining to fill its ranks with the Iraq war in its fifth year, the military is taking on an ever-bigger role providing basic education to new recruits. It's a strategy that is potentially risky for the military as it strives to maintain the quality of its force, but one that's clearly giving dropouts like Vojta a second chance.
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