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The Military can be a positive influence on a person and it can be a negative influence. For me it was a Positive one. The Army took an overweight 18 year old kid and made him in to a 155 pound muscle toned, disciplined soldier. In my ten years of service, I have seen the negative effects Military can have. It can make families strong or it can tear them apart. I have seen soldiers that think the military is a playground for them to get away with doing things the way they want, and it always turns out in them receiving disciplinary action and separation.
I did not get married while I was in however, I come from a military family, My mother stayed with my father through 22 and counting years. It does take a special kind of spouse to marry a servicemen. It definitely takes a strong woman to support a spouse that may get called to lay down their life for other people's freedom and the freedoms of those here at home.
As far as the Military being too PC. I have heard and seen kids talk a lot of smack about what they would do if they were in Iraq, and I will tell them talking is one thing but doing it is another
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"...The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."-John Stuart Mill
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