Home School Heartbeat Radio Program

Mike Smith:
This week, I’m honored to have Chaplain Paul Douglas, a recruiter for the Army National Guard, as my guest. With Colonel Mike Jones, head of recruitment across the country for the Guard, Chaplain Douglas helped to streamline the enlistment process for homeschool graduates. Chaplain Douglas is also a homeschool dad. Chaplain Douglas, thank you for joining us this week.

Chaplain Paul Douglas:
Hi, Mr. Smith, glad to be here.

I’d like to take a moment just to say, Colonel Mike Jones has really been instrumental and a driving force. He’s a homeschool father, as well as myself, and he’s been terrific in pushing this and helping the policy piece go through, particularly with our new program, called the Homeschool Path to Honor. We took a confusing set of guidelines that governed the enlistment of homeschoolers, and we organized the program in such as a way as to make it easier for enlisted recruiters to bring homeschoolers into the guard. The National Guard recognizes the fact that homeschoolers bring some great skills to the table, so we built the Army National Guard Homeschool Path to Honor. It can be accessed by going to 1-800-Go-Guard.com, and just clicking on the icon that says “Your path to honor as a homeschooler.” It’s a terrific program, and we hope that a lot of homeschool parents will take advantage of it by directing their students that way.

Mike:
Well, thank you for taking the time to join us today! I look forward to hearing more about the National Guard and homeschoolers on our next program. Until then, I’m Mike Smith.