I spent 4 yrs in the military. First, boot camp can be really abusive and can temporarily scar an already fragile person. Unless you score super high on ASVAB tests you will be stuck cooking in the cook kitchen, sweating and flipping hamburgers. Also, every time I signed up for a college course in the military, they would make me drop the class because they claimed that they came first and would want me to deploy for only a month in some far away place. So unless a person is seriously poor that they can't even afford Jr. college or has extreme unruly behavior, I'm not too sure about the military these days.