Why did you join the military?

Okay I Won't Mention My Name ...
So Don't Look Above Or To Your Left Either, Or It'll Screw-Up Your Report,
~~ I Enlisted In The USAF On My 17th Birthday, Quite Frankly; Because I Felt It My Responsibility To Serve This Country, As Did 2 Of My Brothers Before Me; And Not Have To Worry About Being Drafted Into The ARMY. .....The USAF Goes 1st Class...While The ARMY Works For A Living.
And At 17, Employment Sucked & I Had Only A Little Education To Get A Decent Job.
I'm A Mid 9th Grade Drop Out, Just Returning From Central America.. That Being Said; I Had To LIE Like All "L" To Be Allowed To Enlist.. 10th Grade Was The Minimum Requirement... Then, Upon Hitting My 1st Duty Station, I Immediately Completed My GED... Then I Took Every Business Program I Could Complete During My 4 Year Enlistment....THERE... ~And My Name Is NOT "Sally" ~

Received my draft notice on my 21st (Happy) birthday. Felt I had no choice in the matter at the time. Did choose to stay around for 22+ years.

I have no idea why I joined. My Grandpa never spoke of WWII, Dad never spoke of Vietnam, and at some point in grade school I started becoming very patriotic. Probably sometime around the second grade I started learning about Pearl Harbor and WWII and that just seemed to be the direction for me. Retired from Army Nurse Corps 2.5 years ago.

I joined the army because My Dad served in the Marines and 3 of my uncles 1 in the Marines - Korea and 2 in the Navy & 1 cousin served in the Army - Viet Nam

My four older brothers all served in the military and my family couldn't afford sending me to college. So after working in a glass factory for a year after graduation I decided to join the U.S. Army and become an MP. This would further my ambition to become a police officer after ETS. I couldn't have been more wrong. Living where I did you had to have political connections for local police. State police was pretty much the same and Sheriff duties were not what I wanted to do. So I became a Treasury Analyst after my tour.