What passes for a critic these days boggles my mind . <| sep |> there ' s a bit more complexity , but basicallycheese pizza CP child pornthey literally took a fucking 4 chan meme and used it as evidence for widespread corruption and crime <| sep |> yes , life is way easier i would say . your job is picked for you for the most part your clothes are picked for you your location is picked for you for the most part your housing is included in your pay your food is included in your pay you ' re provided the money to buy a whole new uniform every year free gym membership school funding you know that as long as you dont do anything TOO extremely wrong , you wont get in any real trouble if you get in trouble , what are they gonna do ? fire you ? no . aside from rape , murder , stealing etc etc if you screw up your money , you can get 1 month of your paycheck without telling anyone last i checked if you talk backdisrespect to your boss , the most that can happen is you get a nastygram in your PIF . try that in the civilian world . maybe i exaggerated on this one no matter how great or terrible you are at your job , you get the same pay and your ratings dont suffer as long as you show up , dont piss anyone off , and go home you can get a free 24 hrs off work if youre sick . even if youre not , whats your boss gonna do realistically ? You ' ll get sent to sick call , go huff and puff and bam you get a free day off i know because a troop of mine did it and there was nothing i could do . you can literally take time off for almost any air force related event , aka volunteering , given manning can handle it . you can abuse the i have an appointment line . I know a lot of these parallel with the civilian world . but at 20 , i really dont think theres anything on earth that compares to what the military provides you . but at the same time , it can be a hindrance to the lessdeveloped people who join young and old . it ' s one of those things where this life is easy enough to be responsible or easy enough to be irresponsible . plus if you ' re not working the line , not a cop , or not any job where you ' re busting either your body or your brain at work every day , then it can be really easy to become complacent and ride the gravy train not saying this is you . I actually like it , because I can now take advantage of my off time and get around civilian life and get to know people there . No offense to most military people , but i think we lose touch even me with what the real world is like i hate that term btw . so i always interact with civilian people and talk to them . and not just like people who live in the town right off base and blow our heads up because we ' re mil , i mean in a major city . Easier ? 100 x easierLess stressful ? DependsMore enjoyable ? SometimesI ' m definitely thankful though . EDIT forgot to mention deployments . someone else can speak on that one . i dont have a lot of experience with that .