OP- Throughout boot camp, keep your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open. That is the best advice that I was given before going through boot camp in the Navy. I agree with Valhalla, your ASVAB score is way to high to be doing something that requires the IQ of a grapefruit. No offense to snipers. The job sounds like fun...but requires little more than a lot of practice. Take a look at some of the more technical jobs, like IT or something to that effect. If you spend four years in and decide that it blows balls, you'll have good training that can easily transfer to back to the civilian sector. How many companies are looking for great snipers? Or tank operators? I'd say there are more companies that are looking for people with technical training and backgrounds. Just keep your options open, you'll be glad that you did if you decide to get out. I scored very well on the ASVAB as well and chose a job that kept me in an air conditioned room, tinkering with a fire control radar system. I thought that I would do a full 20 years and get out, but after boot camp and school, you'll get to experience how the actual job and day-to-day routine works and it may not be your cup of tea. The commercials are WAY off...hahaha. Military life can be very stressful on a family as well. Given the position that you are in, it's a very smart move to join the military. If nothing else, it will make a great stepping stone to a better career in the future. Keep that excitement and enthusiasm going and remember....mouth shut, eyes and ears open. Good luck to you.
To all the others who are getting all fired up about 9/11-
Do you honestly think that we can just rush D.C. with pitch forks and torches? Come on...seriously. On a small side note...it is very difficult to take a person seriously regarding an issue like this when their spelling and grammar is equal to that of a fourth grader. Not saying that to anyone in particular.
Who thinks that the internet can't be monitored and/or modified to tailor to the CIA's wishes? Has anyone seen what programmers and hackers are capable of? So there is no way that we MIGHT have someone working for the big bad government that is capable of something similar? Do I believe that the government has corruption here and there? Sure. Everything from 7/11 to Walmart to probably the U.N. has some form of corruption or whatever. Bitching about it on an internet forum and picking apart pictures that are on the internet...which were uploaded from a computer...which could have been altered, is just as ridiculous. People like this conspiracy theorists fall into the same category as hippies and people who claim to be "green" and are trying to save the earth. Those people are the reason that I am pro-abortion. Not pro-choice...pro-abortion. There should be a screening process for couple who wish to reproduce. I volunteer myself as the one who decides whether or not they are allowed to reproduce.
How about we start up a conspiracy theory thread?