Bryson Daily doesn’t know where he’ll be next year.

He could be in Alabama or South Korea, Michigan or Germany or the Middle East. He will be a second lieutenant in the Army, deployed to a to-be-determined military base. His hope is to serve in the infantry.

“We take classes, like military science, that are directly getting us ready for the job we have ahead,” Daily said. “It’s something we’re always thinking about.”

Soon, Daily will be one of more than 450,000 active-duty troops in the Army. Today, he is one of one.