Pros
*Repaid $40k in student loans *The government pays me for the chronic pain they caused, so I guess that's a wash? *You get a couple sets of free clothes when you join *Once a year I get a free Hot-N-Ready Lunch Combo at Little Caesar's Pizza so that's nice I guess. *Free travel but you don't always get to choose where to go and sometimes it's places like a war zone. You get what you pay for I guess. *I saw one Drill Sergeant get fired and an NCO get fired and sent to anger management because they were already real messed up in the head and were put in charge of training new recruits, so that's a unique experience I guess. *I got to experience rural Missouri AND rural Germany in the dead of winter, which isn't like something I wanted, but I probably wouldn't have had the experience of sledgehammering ice off the frozen mud to set up an aid tent had I not enlisted. *I learned a lot about good leadership (not by example, but still). *Met some cool people.
Cons
*Look, if you're on Glassdoor evaluating whether you should join the Army or not, you absolutely should NOT join the Army. *My boss was allowed to come into my bedroom and make sure I was folding my laundry neatly and stuff, which sucked a lot. *They broke my body in a permanent way and now I live with chronic pain and I don't even have a good story for it. *Learned that "this dude is an absolute pervert and we all know this so just kind of stay away from him" is apparently an acceptable response to sexual harassment. *Extreme micromanagement, my boss even dictated what I was allowed to wear day to day. *Pretty cult like, you're expected to engage in these rituals kind of like the Walmart cheer thing, every morning and every evening. *To be honest the whole thing is pretty messed up.