This book is for people who are contemplating joining the military, are already in the military, or can't wait to get out of the military. This is a good book for spouses, sweethearts, and parents of members of military service. The information in this book is based on the personal experience of the author, who served for twenty-plus years in the Navy, the Marine Corps and the Coast Guard. The information is of a general nature and applicable to all the armed services. This is not a book of war stories, blood and guts or other fictional or nonfictional accounts of the horrors associated therewith.