U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division
3/505 P.I.R. Delta Company
Spent 3 years jumping out of planes and blowing up tanks and people - well training to blow up people anyway. Honorable Discharge as an E-4, incdently i'm also now a disable vet. Got a screw in my wrist and the knees of a 40/yo (i'm 25). But i do get a free education, $200 a month for life, and use of VA hospitals so that's worth it (yeah right)
Anyway, if you like playing with guns and blowing stuff up, then it's a great time....for a while. The best thing about my military career? Made some of the best friends a guy could ever have. I fly all over the country just to keep in touch, the kinda guys that would literally die for you. Plus, if you patriotic at all, then you get a chance to give a little back to a great country that gives you everything - which was important to me.
Just remember, they don't make recruiting posters of cleaning the Latrine, or mowing dirt, or sleeping in the rain; stuff you spend most of your time doing. And those fancy parades they DO make posters of? yeah they're great....as long as your not IN them.