A career in the armed forces can provide you a wide range of benefits â like a steady income, access to healthcare, job training, educational assistance and opportunities for travel.
Staff Sgt. Matthew Thompson, a recruiter with the Huntsville Army Recruiting Company, was eager to obtain all of these benefits when he made his decision to join the Army over 14 years ago.
âI was only 17 years old and didnât know what I wanted to do with my life,â he said. âI decided to join the Army because I was headed in the wrong direction during my last years of high school. I was skipping school and not making good grades. I wasnât mature enough to go to college at the time and I wanted something better for myself. Someone told me to go down and talk with an Army recruiter and I did. The recruiter told me about the benefits of military service. I had family members who had served so I knew that he was being honest with me. I also wanted to travel and see the world. The Army did that for me.â