I saw this story and thought about posting it. While I have never dealt with people in this predicament during my time in the military, my experience with all sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds tells me that while there may be an occasional success story, most will be problematic. They’ll see the military strictly as the proverbial ‘get out of jail free’ card and will be unproductive and simply bide their time, or will be getting in trouble again. Most people’s characters are firmly established by this age. If they won’t respect boundaries and authority in civilian life, they won’t in the military. I’ve seen it.

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