The grand total of all you will earn, and all you will never have to spend, just for having served six years in the United States Army comes to $780,000.00.   That does not include the cost of all healthcare along the way.  That is just gross wages, tuition benefits and assisted living for a decade.

 

Oh wait.  I forgot the $23,042,00.00 value of your investment portfolio because you let it ride instead of spending it.

 

Clearly, even without investing in the market, you will be far better off financially having served six years in the Armed Forces of the United States.

But take this old man’s advice and invest in the market.  Allow the experts to make the stock picks and don’t stress the ups and downs.  

 

I know, none of us could resist taking a peek every now and then, but let it ride.  The market has fluctuated but it has never failed, not since the banks were regulated in the 1930s.

 

Of course, every young man or woman reading this will want to know if I walked the walk.

 

I did not.

 

I did not have an old man to teach me the easy way.  I took the hard way.  I attended a civilian university and wasted too many years of my life trying to climb the corporate IT ladder.

 

I never earned my pile of gold to finance my grander schemes, but I always knew I had an ace card in my back pocket, decades of great fishing in my retirement, and a Veteran’s home to retire to when I can’t make it up and down the stairs any longer.

 

I am not independently wealthy.

I like to say I am independently broke.

 

I have everything I need, and all I ever wanted, so there is nothing wrong with that.  I just wonder what life would be like today if I had the discipline to invest what the Army paid me instead of wasting it on all the usual fun.

 

That is my only excuse, and still I can’t complain, can I?

 

But what will your excuse be, when you reach the ripe, old age of sixty, discover you are destined to live to a hundred, but did NOT invest your youthful earnings as I suggest?

 

The Armed Forces of the United States has defeated every enemy it has faced over the centuries, but the Army can’t beat the market.

 

I advise you to take my advice.  Enlist for six, serve honorably, acquire technical skills, and worry about your dreams later in life.  With only a few thousand dollars to spend, you are going to be quite limited in what you can achieve anyway. 

 

But with $23,042,000.00?

 

This is not just a dream, it is a documented, achievable reality.

Talk to a recruiter today.