That is just one example, but I think many would tell you that tax issues are very prevalent in military pay. I would absolutely not agree with that, as I believe everyone benefits from military service due to organization and discipline.
I did not grow up wanting to serve in the military. I flunked out of college at 20 after failing one too many engineering courses. The United States Navy changed me and made me the man I became. I retired as a Chief Petty Officer (a high enlisted rank) and made the transition from mobile military construction to the construction of new homes. The timing was good and I made my way down to Florida to participate in the boom there. By the time I retired, I was living in a dream- a 13 acre property in rural North Florida with the woman I loved in a home I built. I had an investment portfolio of about $1.1 million. If you had told me I would become a millionaire in the time between college and the Navy, I would have laughed. While I have lost most of my fortune in the past several years trying to make my wife's last years as comfortable as possible, I still have enough to buy a smaller house in a more urban area, pay for medical expenses, eat and drink plenty, and occasionally travel. If it weren't for the US Navy, I would be either homeless or dead.
Wait a minute you are actually going to tell me that military is superior to all other methods of education for a career in finance? You serious? This is news to me, and that would be news to a lot of people in my industry. Damn I really blew it then with my degree in finance and my designations, my experience working in securities while in college, and my 12,000 hours of personal study. I should have just not done all of that and instead just joined the military and I guess I would be a lot more knowledgeable today and be a lot further in my career than I am now. Oops!
Sorry for the satire, but if the military was better for my career prospects I would have done it and so would have many others in my industry. They didn't because its not.
There are people for whom military service is a disaster even if they don't get crippled or killed in combat or training. A sociopath who better knows weapons and killing techniques could go through military training and get proficient at 'arts' that one last wants an evil person to know. Who wants anyone to teach potential hit men the mastery of that trade?
Some people go through military life and develop a hostility to civilian life as well as injured feelings. The extreme example is Timothy McVeigh. That's before I mention the stereotyped (if mercifully rare) "angry veteran".
If someone has extremely cultivated artistic or academic skills, military life is probably a disaster. I notice that although returning WWII vets did well after the war in much, they did very badly in literary, musical, and artistic achievements.
