I wanted to join the military, and you should know
Year was 2004. I was freshly graduated from a private East Coast of the USA university. A tuition I'd only much, much later learned that my dad had paid off. And I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life or my future. What I did know was that I was fairly unhappy and angry and sad a lot. In a post-9/11 US world, I didn't really know where the jobs were going to be anymore. So I started looking into joining the military. Both Army and Marines. Had I actually joined Army I probably would've figured out how to do Army Special Forces. My reasons were: -Guaranteed job after 9/11 -Opportunity to learn Arabic, especially Iraqi and/or Gulf Arabic, which would've been useful for business skills later (at least, this was my rationale) - I was kinda dudebro metal so it fit my personality -I'll be vague about this one for reasons, but if you do some digging into why AFAB people join the military specifically, it was adjacent to that. And I have to say, this was so weir...