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Most difficult for what? You're going to make the biggest amount of personal sacrifice if you go into the military (and get good benefits from it, but it's still a big commitment).

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Military is pretty easy if you don't mind following instructions.
School was harder for me because I started when I was 29 or 30 and had a family and worked full time so the time management was a bit of a struggle at times.

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Military.

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Also if you can score over a 40 on the ASVAB I don't know why you'd do Marines over Air Force, Navy or Coast Guard.

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If you're coming in as a POG then basic training is the only hard part of being in the military. Once you finish school and get to your duty station its like a regular 9-5 job for the most part. Not to mention if you're single and you got nothing to hold you back its amazing to go out overseas, get as many deployments in as possible and have some fun.

Can't speak for any combat jobs though lol. I see those suckers rucking out to the field sometimes on Friday nights. Sucks to be them

If you don't know then military.

When you're done your service hopefully you have a better idea of what you want to do and then you don't have to worry about student debt.
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I'm a bit biased but in the military you can get some good job training as well as the GI bill to pay for schooling after you get out. That is if you score well in testing (not hard) and go for a more technical job.

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Also is there any way you could apply to a US Military Academy? Then you could do both.
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Some of the stuff I've heard about the Marine Corps, definitely the Corps.

Like 0430 wakeup every weekday morning and if you live off base then you have to be there at 0430 so you're waking up even earlier.

2 hours of working out, then have like an hour to shower, change, and eat.

Then your working day starts.

Then on Thursdays they clean the fuck out the barracks to where it's spotless and will stay as late as needed.

Sounds awful. I'm sure mileage will vary by unit and base.

But the rest of the military branches? Pfft, school is way harder. Unless you consider being stranded at sea for 3-9 months at a time to be awful. Then only 2 branches would be harder than school

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Is school supposed to be hard? Because it isn't. I had much harder times in the Army.

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University by miles.

i would actually suggest going to Air Force first, then college.

marine Corps is an awful choice all around, and theres like absolutely no point joining when the benefits in the other branches are much better with less chance of getting deployed in some shithole war zone.

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Hexenherz posted...

Also if you can score over a 40 on the ASVAB I don't know why you'd do Marines over Air Force, Navy or Coast Guard.

The Marine Dress Blue is the hottest of them all. Why would I want to look like a pawn when I can look like an esteemed member of the Vanguard of the Greatest Country in the World?

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They're both difficult for completely different reasons. Depends entirely on the person on which would be more difficult.

College is comparably very easy compared to real life and especially the military, barring an insanely intricate major. Even then though, you have only around 16 hours of class a week, leaving you loads of time to read, study, write papers, have social time, and sleep. I read on average over a thousand pages a week with my major and wrote papers all the time, and still had loads of free time.

There's a reason why almost all college grads miss the bubble after leaving.

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I'd guess that if you're in shape and don't need a lot of sleep, marine corps would be easier. But if you're dumb college university will be harder. Then again not all college programs are hard.

I breezed through 4 years of college after 4 years of a combat MOS in the Marines. I got all my partying out of my system in the military and pulling all-nighters for studying was a breeze. Literally my job for four years was to study and go to class. I was 22 as well when I started college so I wasn't that much older than my peers so I was still able to make good friends.