Oh, I get it. 11 years of military, I know how to play all the games because I worked for companies before that. Now I have an "I will manipulate this system till it suits me" attitude.

i almost went military (family traditiom (navy) + great asvab scores) but then 9/11 happened and i went 'oohhh no non onno oin no' but the family tradition part gave me tools to navigate actual america (vs learned america) in retrospect, navy's kinda ancillary to GWOT, coulda had a run at it,