Pros
The Army provides a good opportunity to get leadership experience starting early in your career. The training opportunities in ROTC and scholarship to pay for college is a good benefit. Provides a unique experience that is unlikely to be matched in other occupations. * Opportunity to travel, unfortunately most of the places you travel to suck, but some are interesting. * Variety, you don't get stuck doing one thing your entire career. * Well defined career path that with mentorship to help you progress to positions of greater responsibility. * Unfortunately the downsides are pretty significant so it is hard to come up with 100 words of positive things to say
Cons
WAR in IRAQ WAR in Afghanistan George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld Basically if you think that the war is a mistake that was perpetrated on the American people by lies coming from the highest levels in our government, you probably won't be too happy with your job. Contractual obligations that make it difficult or impossible to quit even if you want to except during certain limited windows in your career. However, even outside of disagreements with the wars the Army has other disadvantages to consider. Even during normal peace-time type operations that hours are usually extremely long depending on what position you are in. The Army always takes precedence over everything else in your life. If you want to live a normal life and care about things like family, then the Army is not a good place to be. Difficulty in controlling your career path. You get slotted in a position and sent to locations with minimal interest from the Army in what you want to do. The "needs of the Army" are the most important factor in determining what job you do and where you live, and you can't just quit if you don't like what you are told to do.