I won’t go CR, but these days, I’d want my kids as far away from the US military as possible. My 19 year old had been considering AF or... ? However he is also considering the current political winds & won't be even .0000001% a tool for the MAGA infused CinC. As many of y'all know, my Dad's ashes are in Arlington. Enlisted in '92 for a steady job / consistent paycheck,etc. His favorite line was always "i wanted to go into divinity (Episcopalian) in a time when if you were LUCKY if they asked "What do you know?" & if you said "My dad had a filling station & he would occasionally have me changing oil", they would put you in the motor pool, working on Jeeps other than that, there was none of today's 'test to see your aptitude & give you a guaranteed job' to entice you to go in sorta thing. '62. They took one look @ me & said "YOU would look really good standing around airplanes & holding a gun." 30 years in Air Police ----> Security Police. E5 / OCS (Bootsraps) / O4.his His Dad was "one of 4 Worldwide Directors" for the USO & I had a picture of him on my last phone from the '50s where he is on some sorta stage & "greeting / receiving Rabbi _____ from the Israeli _____ (military, is in uniform) in Tokyo" that seems to have vaporized & I cannot find the original again anywhere on the internet. I should maybe try to actually reach a historian or some kind of Admin Assist wherever their HQ is. Anyhow, attached pic is Dad in '92 @ his stateside retirement @ Patrick (prior 4 years were in Italy @ southern Command, ¿Napoli?) & then last is current. Section 71, # 1334. not far from the USAF statue just outside the loop around Arlington. Step-mom in retirement pic. He had a LOT more pics & memorabilia (plaques, etc) from 30 years & it all got lost in a house fire ~2005 or so. 2× Squadron Commander in San Antonio (Lackland - onboard for establishinh the AF's dog handling program & Randolph) + Langley, favorite thing to talk about re: dogs is "We liked to use the cute Cocker Spaniels - nobody would suspect they were drug or explosive sniffers". Was also Sq. Comm. @ Keflavik, etc. & as a ButterBar, was part of the transition from Ent AFB to Air Force Academy.