Good on them! Joining up is a scam. You get to trade your life for possibly getting a chance to further your education; that is if you don’t die during your service. And then, who’s freedom do you end up really fighting for because you end up fighting a foreign war? You end up fighting a war to enrich the billionaires more. Once your service is up, if you are unfortunate enough to have real and tangible mental trauma, you’re cast aside like someone who’s shelf life has expired. Fuck #Amurica.

I graduated college loan-free, and with 4 years of hard lessons in leadership and self discipline. I credit my time in service for the man I’ve become and would recommend it heartily to anyone with a sense of adventure and duty, plus the rare capacity to just shut up during the occasional episodes of nonsense.

I recognize that this isn’t the popular opinion on here, but I doubt most of you have actually done it. I have. It was worth it, and I’d do it again.