Did you sign up for benefits, or did you sign up to be a warrior? My son signed up to be a warrior. I do not want to hear it. Frauds.
I had a colleague when I was doing my residency who had no medical school debt because he’d joined the military. It was a great deal, and he was very happy about it - until he was told he had to deploy. He was not happy about it. He was unlikely to see any combat - as a physician officer, but it just wasn’t what he thought would happen.
Yup. Those who want to serve the public in uniform without risk can join the post office and stick to mail sorting.
During Desert Storm, we had a nurse cry her way out of her NG medical unit, after she was notified of a coming deployment to Landstuhl Hospital/Ramstein Germany.
We asked her why she was resigning her commission.
“I signed up for the benefits; not to actually have to do anything, or go anywhere!”
She was ostracized, as our Critical Care unit, if not the entire hospital, was heavily staffed by Guard, Reserves, vets, and military family members.
It wasn’t long before she quit her job.