I'm sure that you're very proud of your son, all of them. My sons never showed any interest in enlisting though I served 21 years in the Army. I retired in January of 91, just before the first action in Iraq. I served in Viet Nam and Grenada so you know that I was wishing extra hard that I could have been attached to a battle group in Iraq but they said that I was 'too old' as well. The service is a great place for a young man. Good on him.