In the army, am I making the right choice?

Question

I'm applying to West Point after highschool. Majority of my school are going to different colleges. None of them are getting involved in the military. only like 2 other people and this is a huge school.

I was just thinking my final goal being to join the Seals. If i fight and die for my country and everyone else gets to experience love and have a family and get rich...should i really do it. My passion is to help people and serve my country. I'm not sure really if it's the moral choice.

Answer 1

Have you gotten your congressional recommendation for West Point? That is done in your Junior year of High School so get hopping.  Do you realize that your final goal is a Navy unit?

Answer 2

There is only one rule when planning your future.  Follow your heart and not others.  If the Seals is what you want than why worry about what other people are doing.  Do want YOU want not what others tell you to want and do.

Answer 3

You probably won't die for your country. You will probably die for someone else's country that US politicians insist on intervening in.

Answer 4

You can experience love and have a family while in the military. Also if you make the military your career and become an officer or higher make pretty good money. If your passion is to help people and serve your country than the military is for you. The military also offers the GI bill to paid for college.

Answer 5

What the other poster said. SEALs are US Navy. Go to Annapolis. Army is Green Beret/Army Rangers/Delta Force. There is also the 82nd Airborne, which is not special forces but an elite airborne division.

Answer 6

Wow.  You've got a lot to think about.

You can serve your country in a variety of ways.  If you feel you must join the military, then go ahead.  Realise, though, that you can help your fellow Americans by becoming a teacher (and teaching in either a rural or urban underfunded school), going into medicine, becoming a fire fighter, making a living by working for non-profits that focus on children, doing volunteer work during your time off, becoming a responsible religious advisor to a community that needs you, working for an organization that helps the environment and American wildlife... and last but certainly not least having and raising wonderful - educated - compassionate children who will be exceptional future citizens of the United States of America.  

So many choices... so little time, huh?  :)

Answer 7

i aint dying for george bush, and oil. get your education...but thats just me.....*what do i know?*

Answer 8

west point is army academy if you want to be a NAVY Seal join the naval academy.