Well, my brother in law is currently serving in the USAF. He and his wife are the ones who persuaded my husband to consider the USAF. They are actually pretty pleased and considering the military as a career for my brother-in-law. My very best and closest friend is married a serviceman in the Army. She is very pleased. I have gone to visit them several times in several and they have hardly lived in squalor. Maybe they are exceptions. Or maybe, no offence to anyone's opinion, things may have possibly improved? I'd like to believe that, because my husband seems to be hell bent on joining. It may just be a phase, but his phases usually don't last this long.