If anyone talks $hit about your flag, you have my permission to kick their shebs.
Yeah, it is hard to make friends then 3 years later move, then make new friends and another 3 years later lose them too.
Honestly it screwed my social life, but i was a kid, and at least I had the strength to hang with the nerds and not the druggies
So, Commander if you join, remember how it will affect your kids, but you are young, you can get in quite a few good years and then retire with out affecting your kids (obviously you'll wait on having kids right

) because when you retire, they'll still be young, and you can retire back home in Phoenix near your family.
My sister married an ARMY guy and moved to PA, none of our family is there, she got divorced and is stuck there. My wife and I live within 7 miles of her family and my parents.
I talk a lot don't I?