I believe this point deserves a thank you for your service.
Thank you-I always maintain accurately that I got more out of my military experience than it got out of me, but...the same can’t be said of many young people who gave far more of themselves than I was ever asked to do.
That said, it is more accurately a comment on how valuable my military experience was to me-I learned lessons about life, working with others, and my own strengths and weaknesses that would have taken me far longer to see outside the military, and those lessons have served me darn well the rest of my life.
In the past, I always recommended military service to a young person who was drifting out of High School, but...I have difficulty doing that now. The military is largely so “woke” that I would feel bad recommending it to someone who wasn’t under the spell of that crap. I feel certain they must pound it into you now.