I was told it’s very unlikely I would ever deploy and that I would stay stateside. 3 months after basic I was on a plane to the Horn of Africa and 9 months after that deployment I got sent to kuwait.

I had no idea what I was going to do or get involved in, because if recruiters did tell you what it was actually like then no one would join. The big joke when you are in the military is that “my recruiter lied to me”