Originally Posted by USMCFLYR

I've been living the military life for some time so I can safely say that I'm up to date on the whole family sacrifice thing and the effects on marriage and children. I see it regularly and have lived it to t he fullest myself - and yet plenty of people still feel that it is good enough to pursue a career in. Not everybody - and that is OK - but for the ones that it works for or who believe the sacrifice is worth it for some reason - it would not be proper for someone to come along and say that they have failed themselves or their family or have hurt their children in some way or another. Its just mean spirited. If one can't see that then there is nothing I can do about it; but I don't have to be like that.