My brother also joined the Coast Guard to avoid the draft during the Vietnam war. My brother after him starved himself. When he went in for his physical he was grossly underweight an didn't pass. No Vietnam for him either. My brother #3 didn't have to worry about being drafted because he graduated in '78, but he did join the job corps after high school. I'm not sure what that got him. He's unemployed now and has been for a year. My oldest son left home when he was 18 before he graduated high school because he didn't want to live by our rules. He joined the Navy after high school (scratching my head). He has been to Japan, Iraq and is now in Spain. He hates it all. They dangled bonuses in front of his face and he bought all the crap they fed him. He thought it was going to be a piece of cake and he would be raking in the dough in no time. He joined for 6 years active, 2 years inactive. He's under paid and over worked. He's stuck in the Navy for 3 more years. He's now thinking that school is a better alternative.
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