Chris Trevino Q&A

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Why did you join the National Guard?

Trevino joined the military in order to get a free college education. But he also joined to represent his country. “I joined to serve. It’s the national guard, its only part time, so I’m not going to be serving full time,” Trevino said.
Trevino explained how the branches work. “It goes us army, us army reserves, us national guard, so, I did the national guard because it’s part time, and obviously to serve,” he said. “Nobody else in the family besides my cousin is in the military, and I’ve always wanted to do it too, since I was little. I liked to see people In the uniform, like what I think that’d be cool to do. So, now I’m doing it,” Trevino said.

What are the benefits?

“The biggest one right now is 100 percent college tuition paid,” Trevino explained how The only thing that doesn’t get paid is room and board, and his books, but would be using other scholarships and FASFA for that. The family benefits are also important to Trevino.
“You get all of the family benefits, there’s health benefits, there’s money your family gets if you die, they would get around $150,000 to pay for everything,” Trevino said.

What are you going to college for?

Trevino expressed how he is going to major in sociology, his original plan was to major in criminal justice, but he quickly changed his mind. “A police officer told me that you learn that in the police academy, so that be kind of dumb to like learn or major in that just to learn it all over again. I want to be a detective, so a good major to major in is sociology, you work with people, you see how they are, and you get to know them better and talk to them,” Trevino said.