Rob, I really like your stuff. My business partner and I both served. He was a Marine, and I was an Army paratrooper. We met later in the National Guard while attending college on the GI Bill. Your experiences are closer to his -- most of his childhood friends are dead, in jail or have been to jail -- but he and I formed a successful bus…
Rob, I really like your stuff. My business partner and I both served. He was a Marine, and I was an Army paratrooper. We met later in the National Guard while attending college on the GI Bill. Your experiences are closer to his -- most of his childhood friends are dead, in jail or have been to jail -- but he and I formed a successful business together and have done well, thanks to the lessons the military taught us. (I had a similar lower middle-class upbringing, but I was lucky in that my dad was transferred to a good school zone when I was a preteen.) In any case, I can validate everything you wrote about the transformative nature of military service.
Rob, I really like your stuff. My business partner and I both served. He was a Marine, and I was an Army paratrooper. We met later in the National Guard while attending college on the GI Bill. Your experiences are closer to his -- most of his childhood friends are dead, in jail or have been to jail -- but he and I formed a successful business together and have done well, thanks to the lessons the military taught us. (I had a similar lower middle-class upbringing, but I was lucky in that my dad was transferred to a good school zone when I was a preteen.) In any case, I can validate everything you wrote about the transformative nature of military service.