If so how?
2007-04-04 02:59:38 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
It got me out of my home town...it let me see things that most of my high school friends would never see...it taught me to be a leader and gave me the discipline to become the man I am today...the Army helped me get my BS, and the GI Bill will pay for my Masters and possibly my PhD...I made friends that will stay with me a life time...it made me proud of my country and allowed me to defend my country...the only draw back, I met my first wife in the Army...lol
2007-04-04 03:12:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was born in the USA, and I'm not British or German. I'm American. So YES the military has changed my life. It's changed ALL of our lives on some level.
On the more immediate level, my husband is a US Marine. Being "married into the Corps" has taught me more about myself than anything else could have. I've learned that I CAN survive by myself, that I am stronger than I give myself credit for and that I am so lucky to have the friendship, support and protection of all our troops.
2007-04-04 05:27:50 · answer #2 · answered by rocknrobin21 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I learned about the cost of freedom from the Marines.
I married a Veteran of Vietnam who also had served Embassy Duty. I am very proud of my Marine husband and the values he embraces. My heart aches for all who experience war.
We never forget the DAV and the cost of freedom.
All who were in Vietnam came back with PTSD. Some deny it, but all experience it. Wives of these Veterans experience varying degrees of isolation as do other members of the family. I became involved with the program at a Veteran Center that had an outreach to wives and significant others. The military helped us to understand what was going on so we could cope and adjust. In many cases this saved marriages and indeed, lives.
2007-04-04 03:24:19 · answer #3 · answered by marian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It whipped my butt into shape at that time. I have a deep feeling for those in the military now. But I also have an understanding of the military and all the brainwashing and bull that goes on in it.
I would recommend it to anyone. All of the services are good but the Marines of course are the best.
2007-04-04 03:25:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm no longer it, going to be quickly, yet I wanna enable you be attentive to a narrative approximately somebody I used to chat to (enable's say a family members buddy) that became interior the army. He did no longer pass to varsity, under no circumstances did easily. He desperate to connect the army, long tale short, he wasn't the main extra wholesome man or woman, so he reenlisted into the army for some thing interior the Nuclear field. undecided the applicable MOS so i do no longer intend to make up some thing (i want to assert Nuclear Engineering or some thing like that, undecided). anyhow, he became in for about sixteen years, under no circumstances had a level. He ultimately desperate to leave the army, and he became provided a large place (first civilian activity) at a Nuclear Engineer enterprise and is powerful to at present. He had a large experience. the armed forces is what you're making of it. in case you do no longer take benefit, it is going to be unfavorable, in case you're taking benefit of what your branch has to supply, it's going to be a large experience. the armed forces gives you issues which you will no longer be able to continuously be taught interior the civilian existence. additionally, I also have a chum interior the Air rigidity. they provide "technologies classes" that still count variety in the direction of college credit. He accomplished his preparation, and is now an engineer at Microsoft. As I suggested, that's all what you're making of it. wish I helped and good good fortune :)
2016-12-20 05:40:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it changed my life completely... first i have never in my in tired life laughed so much as i did those nine weeks in basic training,second i had the biggest adrenaline rushes in my life in the Army third i made Friends for life people i can trust with my life if it comes to it, fourth i allow me to see the world and finally it give me the time that i needed to head in the right direction after my divorce..all i have to say is that the Army was good to me...the best second chance to start from scratch...
2007-04-04 08:06:47 · answer #6 · answered by sapito 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any way that you receive training in a professional manner, it changes your life, otherwise you remain in a raw crude state through out your existence.
2007-04-04 03:15:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it did. i married a sailor. a man i would have never met if it hadnt been for the navy. did it change his life sure it did not just because he met me and had a son. its made him a smarter better person. he has matured alot too
2007-04-04 03:41:28 · answer #8 · answered by kleighs mommy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well not mine but my cousin's. He was a jerk who cared about finding girls to chase more that spending time with family. he joined the Marines and he came back a totally different person, he was respectful and cared about his family for once. He changed for the best.
2007-04-04 03:05:46 · answer #9 · answered by Donald C 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes. It made me appreciate the freedoms I enjoyed as a civilian. I don't take them for granted now.
2007-04-04 03:14:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋