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Unless you plan on dying in uniform, eventually you're going to get out of the military.  When you do leave, you'll walk out of Admin on your last day carrying several copies of your DD-214; the official record of everything you did (good or bad) in uniform.  It will follow you everywhere you go for the rest of your life. The question is:  Does a DD-214 signal the end of a journey, or the beginning?  The answer to that depends greatly on why you joined the military in the first place. If you joined for educational or monetary purposes, then [...]