After-Highschool

Could be. The US is pretty generous to ex-mil, and it can be a good way into a job long-term. Hell, you might decide you like it and go career. Really depends what you want to do with your life, though. Also, how /fit/ are you? It's not 1968 any more, they don't just take anyone with a pulse.

Why the marines

I hear the navy and air force are good if you want an easier time and you get to travel

My dad worked on planes for the air force and now he gets a bunch of shit for free

It's a smart alternative to college

>>17788249
Depends. If you major in certain things. If you major in Gender Studies, Journalism, Philosophy, Communications, etc. then yeah it's probably a waste of money. If you major in Science, technology, engineering, math, economics, business, you're better off.

You could join the Marines and get your college paid for, but only if you're willing to do that for four years.

>>17788285
pretty /fit/ right now ,run 5 times a week and lift 3 times a week.
>>17788296
I want to do things instead of sitting around do nothing.
>>17788298
How smart do you have to be to get in a good college and pass in a stem field? Honest to god i am only above average smart and i don't think i have what it takes to pass shit like organic chem and ab calculus

>>17788318
Unless you're kicking ass in highschool calc and physics, don't go into the hard sciences. Admission criteria aren't that bad, but if you can't hack it there, you'll shit yourself and die in university STEM. It's not even the level of intelligence so much as it is the type of intelligence. Business isn't that hard, though - above-average smart and a good work ethic is plenty there.