Serving our country in defense of our nation is always an honorable option.
 Your degree upon graduation will also influence what your options are upon
entering into military service.  After serving honorably for at least 20
years you will recive a decent retirement pay and still be young enough to
finish another career based on what you do after retiring from the
military. My family has many members both past and present that have served
proudly and still coutinue to do so to this day.  I am a member of the
American Legion and joined just a couple years back after the stupid
Vietnam fiasco we were involved in a bit back.
I have a niece that retired from the AF as a Colonel and has problems
finding a job as one of the highest trained registered nurses in that
service.  Seems local hospital providers with RN's in place seem a bit
intimidated.  One of my nephews was about 15 minutes away from an
appointment to discuss part of a budget when a plane impacted that part of
the Pentagon on 9/11. Our public TV media continues to feed us all the
"war beating drums" messages as well as the
local newspapers in major population centers.  Now we are on the verge of a
NUCLEAR (not nucular) faceoff with
North Korea of all places...and supposedly caused by Bush cutting off oil
supplies causing North Korea to fire up their nuke plant for electricity
and produce plutonium 
byproducts.

When I joined the Army I raised my hand and swore my  loyalty to the 
Constitution of these United States of America.  The "Pledge of
Allegiance" to the flag was originally introduced as the result of a
"Cracker Jack" contest to provide a rebuttal to people in Nazi
Germany pledging allegiance to their "Leader".  During the early
1950's McArthey era the tiny phrase of 'under God' was introduced to the
Flag Pledge to differentiate us from the Godless Soviet Empire.  The reason
I have spelled this out is because when I served in the military was not to
swear an oath to serve our leader or a piece of cloth that we honor but the
entire base on which our country was founded.

>From a message by sloppy about OT Military:
> With an anticipated graduation from college in December, I've been
pondering what to do from this point on in life.  I recently hit upon the
idea of the military, was wondering if people could offer input, horror
stories, advice, warnings, etc.  Anything would be appreciated.



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