People who leave the military have a hard time adjusting to civilian life and often turn to alcohol and drugs, and sometimes even worse: suicide and criminal activity. Why is that? When someone quits being an electrician, a salesman, or a teacher and gets a new career these things don’t happen. What is it about being in the military that ruins so many people? Could being sent somewhere that you have no business going and doing things that you have no business doing have anything to do with it?

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