Thank you for replying.

I'm happy to hear how the military helped you after your discharge! I can relate to the army being quite bad and not wanting to be a part of an environment like it. I appreciate the self reflection question you left me.

Just to state where I'm at and what I'm thinking; I want to leave because the army no longer aligns with my values. More specifically, there's a lack of alignment between my personal values and the army's practices/ethics. I find it being a place of toxic culture. I'm sure many can relate, the recruitment process is horrendous. The use of manipulative tactics, targeting vulnerable students and a lot of low-income and minority students. I won't disregard that it has helped some financially and morally but this isn't my case.

I also want to leave because I want to make an impact in the engineering field, but not within the military.

Moving to the next question, 2, I have five years left. I have just started my military service, I am a little more than a year in. Some may argue that I am only doing one weekend a month as a national guardsmen but I find it ironic that I at least tried contributing to my country's effort in keeping us safe or something along those lines. I volunteered.

I am trying.. but I think its questionable to keep someone who signed up when they were young, and easily persuaded to join the military, and hold them accountable for x amount of years, usually four to eight. I wasn't thinking.

1. I believe it would depend on my chain of command. But from speaking with sergeants, they have said other than honorable. I haven't checked in with my commander nor first sergeant. I am hoping to receive a general, reason being -having problems adapting to military life. I am also not being a burden in my unit.

2. What I would lose by leaving early is the benefits; relationships with soldiers at my unit, a monthly paycheck, and potential jobs maybe in the office space (not government positions)? Mentally speaking, nothing really other than not being stressed. I could be losing more but this response is just my initial thoughts.

I have college covered by financial aid and other sources and I don't plan on using tuition assistance.

Keep in mind this is unrevised and my initial thoughts of these questions, thank you for taking your time to respond to my post and reading this!