Would the army be a positive experience?

Question

I have always wanted to join and love pretty much every aspect of it and I have researched allot on it and I have wanted to do it since I was a kid. I have a friend who's brother is in the army, and he says he loves everything about it right down to the bone. He's infantry and he's wanted to do it since he was a kid. But I also hear from people that it was negative and waste of time.....but I'm guessing there just losers that never even served and are basically biast or just joined the army because they really did not know what to do, so they made last minute decision.

I would like soldiers and people have been in the military to respond to this question to avoid bias........no wanabe soldiers that say they have served or are serving please.

Answer 1

Like most things, It is what you make of it.

Personally, I loved the time I spent in the Army. I went places and did things that you just do not get to do anywhere else in the world. Made friends I will be close to all of my life. It also opens up a huge number of doors in your life from the experience that it gives.  As another person mentioned though, don't take it lightly and go into it with your eyes open. It takes a lot of commitment and can ask a lot from you, sometimes everything.  

Answer 2

No! Don't join the Marines!  Join the Army!  It was an excellent learning experience for me!  Not a lot of job skills in the Marines except for shooting guns and driving trucks!!  In the Army, you can repair computers or be a licensed RN!  Go for 4 years!  Boot Camp is an experience that everybody should go through!! You won't be sorry that you did!!!  Don't worry about the 8 year thing!  You do four years active, and four years inactive!  The extra four years is in case WWIII breaks out and if they need extra people to fight!  If that happens, there will be nothing to fight for anyway!! I have been out four years and I didn't get called back and I was a 27 Echo, Missile Systems Repairer!  If you join, you will be deployed though!  It's all good in the hood!!

Answer 3

It'll be what you make of it like anything else in life.  It is a h**l of a commitment - you can't just try it and decide you don't like it.  You have a total of eight years once you enlist.   I've been in for 23 years and would do it all over again.

Answer 4

I served twenty years in the Army and never regretted a day.  

Answer 5

Join the Marines, bud.

Ronald Reagan once said "Marines never have to ask themselves if they ever made a difference in the world".