I was just acknowledging that joining the military means giving up (temporarily) a lot of freedom. You don’t choose what you do, where you live, how you dress, if you take vaccines, etc. in the grand scheme of things, this loss of liberty seems to help young men grow up. My father and one of my cousins paid for college with ROTC and made their current comfort possible. On the other hand, a cousin’s husband was assigned to the burn pits in the Middle East and that didn’t work out so well for him.
I was just acknowledging that joining the military means giving up (temporarily) a lot of freedom. You don’t choose what you do, where you live, how you dress, if you take vaccines, etc. in the grand scheme of things, this loss of liberty seems to help young men grow up. My father and one of my cousins paid for college with ROTC and made their current comfort possible. On the other hand, a cousin’s husband was assigned to the burn pits in the Middle East and that didn’t work out so well for him.