The military advertises how safe it is . But a medical paper questions its safety and the validity of the program. Job Skills Training Military training, even in electronics or computers, is largely for highly specialized military uses. The particular training or position promised to a recruit is often not actually open and there are no job contracts available. On average, veterans earn less than non-veterans, and a special federal job training program for veterans have over 50,000 on the waiting list.
Veterans are more apt to be unemployed or even homeless than non-veterans of the same age.
War Many of the U.S. soldiers who fought in Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Kuwait, and Iraq never thought they would be the ones to see combat. Many of the Reserve soldiers who fought in the war against Iraq had been told that this would never happen to them. But the purpose of the military is to fight wars. Once you are in the military, you cannot choose which wars you will fight and conscientious objector discharges are hard to obtain. Once you have signed up for the DEP, you may be told that you can't get out.