Military Questions

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Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

I was in the Army, met my wife while stationed in Germany, served five years of non combat duty. I would strongly advise you against joining at this point in your life for several reasons.
1 I saw many marriages end due to the long separations required by the military.
2 no matter what a recruiter will tell you there are no sympathies for separated families. That is a huge part of military life
3 even slim the risk of the loss of your life is a huge sacrifice to put before your children, going in knowing you could leave a 2 yo and 4yo fatherless in less than a year ought to be enough reason not to
4 short of full family backing (I mean 110 percent) there will be a lot of second guessing and bitterness when your second unaccompanied (no wife no kids no no one except local ladies) kicks in.

Single young dumb and full of ... go for it, married 2 kids, other opportunities (exciting or not) don't do it. I almost guarantee you will regret it.

If you choose to go anyway, my next statement would be to go in to the air force, although its still going to take you away, they do try to give you more normalized hours, my experience with the army as a mil. police was that there was little to no effort for giving family time value, it was almost looked at with disdain.

That's my thoughts, no disrespect to current serving soldiers meant by it.

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Excellent response man , thank you for your service BTW and thanks for the heads up first hand advice. My nephew as I stated is in but he joined at age 20 and has no kids or wife its a different ballgame obviously. I'm still anxious for others responses as well, I have came to my friends on WP to help me in the decision, like I said I'd love to serve my country but I also don't want to ruin my family or a marriage either.