Similar situation. I’d just gotten into my dream school and my parents didn’t have the money to pay for it, having declared bankruptcy recently. They also hadn’t filed their taxes in two years, so I couldn’t use them for the FAFSA and couldn’t work out how to get loans. I went out and joined the National Guard a couple of days later and got a juicy sign-on bonus to boot for picking cav scout. I never did a real deployment, since I also contracted with ROTC soon after coming back from training — my unit deployed and seven of 84 were killed, all of them doing what I would have been doing had I gone. I still feel a weird kind of guilt about that.
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I had a point when I was deployed where the 1SG got all of the E-4’s together and said the media unit was going to interview people (perks of D-Main I guess). We had to say why we joined and everybody said for the country or some version until it got to me, and I replied for college money. Top told me thanks for being the honest one, but I was also the first to disqualify myself from an interview. I got the boot a couple of years later for refusing to do anything that supported Iraq, so it all works out. It’s almost as if there’s some sophisticated, high-level military marketing layer that assesses how to draw in young people into a top-down, rigid, military machine, and then figures out how to remake soldier’s psychology once they’re ‘in’.