Ill be signing up for the army and my mother is whinning...?

im 17 years old and i went to the recruiter office. i ped the practice test but he said i was too fat to join. i weighed 216.5 lbs at 5'6. he said i need to be at 165 lbs. im currently at 182 lbs now after a month and a half give or take. anyways, i had to bring my mother to the recruitment office since im underage. while we were there, she started to cry. i don't want you guys to think im an ******** or anything but it really pissed me off. nobody likes seeing their parent crying. also, i need her to be strong in order for me to be strong. the way i look at it, she is being very selfish. she cares about her feelings towards the situation more than she cares about mine. the weekend before my step-brother was being sent to iraq, my step mother and i went to visit him. she was being very strong which im sure made him feel good knowing that she was able to handle herself. i havent even made it to boot camp and my mother is losing her mind which is making me lose my mind. i just wish she would show some freaking support even if it is hard for her to do. since the visit to the recruitment office, she has constantly bombarded me trying to get me to wait until im 18. but of course when i turn 18, she'll be trying to get me to go to college and wait until my 20's to join. i know that's her plan. ANYWAYS...can you guys give me some stats on the army and the iraq war. i know that the death % of american soldiers are a lot less now. hell, i might not even make it out of boot camp. i might be honorably discharged like a lot of people are. and if im not, i might not even go over to the middle east. it might all depend on what the ASVAB test results say. any of you have any good stats on the war that might get her to calm down? from what ive heard, things have really simmered over there since the beginning. but it doesnt matter if the situation has simmered, i want to join.