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by yjyft846jh 4840 days ago
That sounds nice, but what about the actual military stuff, where you actually have to participate in war? Surely that is the biggest caveat of using the military as a self-improvement exercise.

That and being stuck in there for X years. Sounds like you lucked out with your military career but it seems like more the exception than the rule?