To address the OP.
You need to save some money and call a lawyer who is experienced with military discharges. Don't try to handle it yourself.
You might also want to move somewhere considerably more liberal than Texas. (California is about to go bust, so that's probably not a good choice either) It's fairly simple though, get one of those Red/Blue maps of the US and find a Blue state.
I can understand the argument about ethics and morals and laws in society.
But unless you are going to sentense everyone guilty of any level of crime to death, you need a way for them to redeem or at least make a life for themselves at a reasonable standard of living. Otherwise you risk creating whole subsocieties of criminals who have no other option.
As for the military, I am not sure it has evolved with society. By its nature it is a conservative organization, it doesn't adapt very well. (Especially to modern warfare) We abhore the idea of child soldiers usually fielded by countries where a 14 year old is considerably more mature than the Average US 18 year old. Yet the US military would be happy to send these naive lambs to the slaughter at the whim of the incompetent powerpoint rangers called "generals" who haven't won a conflict since 1945 and are defeated by the very same tactics used since 1965.
Maybe the OP was just too smart to be cannon fodder?
Most of the military pomp and circumstance is to simply placate the mind and give some mental comfort to the survivors of the deceased. Duty, honor, and country I am afraid is no substitute to a parent for their child.
"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."
---Napolean Bonaparte.
Does that ribbon feed them when they come back physically and mentally broken and the military drops them like a bag of bricks?
Does their honor get them a roof to live under?
I don't find recruitment appealing to the desperate and the naive particlarly ethical or honorable.
before I get accused of being antimilitary, let me point out that I am not, I am actually rather fond of it. But I can still call a spade a spade.
You need to save some money and call a lawyer who is experienced with military discharges. Don't try to handle it yourself.
You might also want to move somewhere considerably more liberal than Texas. (California is about to go bust, so that's probably not a good choice either) It's fairly simple though, get one of those Red/Blue maps of the US and find a Blue state.
I can understand the argument about ethics and morals and laws in society.
But unless you are going to sentense everyone guilty of any level of crime to death, you need a way for them to redeem or at least make a life for themselves at a reasonable standard of living. Otherwise you risk creating whole subsocieties of criminals who have no other option.
As for the military, I am not sure it has evolved with society. By its nature it is a conservative organization, it doesn't adapt very well. (Especially to modern warfare) We abhore the idea of child soldiers usually fielded by countries where a 14 year old is considerably more mature than the Average US 18 year old. Yet the US military would be happy to send these naive lambs to the slaughter at the whim of the incompetent powerpoint rangers called "generals" who haven't won a conflict since 1945 and are defeated by the very same tactics used since 1965.
Maybe the OP was just too smart to be cannon fodder?
Most of the military pomp and circumstance is to simply placate the mind and give some mental comfort to the survivors of the deceased. Duty, honor, and country I am afraid is no substitute to a parent for their child.
"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."
---Napolean Bonaparte.
Does that ribbon feed them when they come back physically and mentally broken and the military drops them like a bag of bricks?
Does their honor get them a roof to live under?
I don't find recruitment appealing to the desperate and the naive particlarly ethical or honorable.
before I get accused of being antimilitary, let me point out that I am not, I am actually rather fond of it. But I can still call a spade a spade.