Not necessarily in all cases. The Airmen of Note is probably one of my favorite jazz bands. The song starts at 1:28. Listen at highest quality, naturally.
However, since Akemi is a horn player, this won't matter much.
Akemi, unless you know that this girl is someone who will be committed to you for at LEAST 5 years while you are in service, then you are lucky. If you or she are too impatient, then I have a feeling that going into the Marines is not a good idea. Trust me, I'm currently in a long-distance relationship. It isn't easy, and I've still got 61/2 years to go before I can pop the question; it's stressing waiting this long. I doubt that you will be in for just 5 years. Once you sign over, you are property of the Marines, and they can and will send you straight into the middle east. I doubt that your girlfriend will think that you're bad for going back on your word if you decide to op out. I'm actually fairly confident that she wants you to stay. If you want the best answer, you should ask her.
Actually, I'm in a long-distance relationship as well. She lives two and a half hours from me and I've only gotten to see her around 7 times since I met her. I did talk to her today and all she did was beg me not to leave her. xD
I do know that she's completely faithful to me. We're so into each other that most of our friends think that we're taking it too seriously, but we don't care. If I didn't have her, I wouldn't want anyone else. She claims the same, and I believe her. Obviously the community's response would be "But she could be lying" and that is plausible, but I can tell her sincerity because of how close we are. She doesn't want me to leave her, but she also told me that if it was my dream, then I could go. Either way, she would refuse to leave me because I'm all she wants, and she's all I want.
The reason I don't really want to go in anymore is because I have her. I don't want to spend so many years in the military with only seeing her a few times. It'd be miserable. I wanted in the Marines because it was my dream if I wasn't planning on marriage. However, since I met her about a year and a half ago, my thoughts changed within a couple months after realizing that I finally found the person I wanted to be with for the rest of my life. Cliche, I know, but it really is that important to me and her. Plus, I would never want to leave her completely alone because I want to be there to protect her.
I don't want to be off in some middle-eastern country, worrying every day if something happened to her or not. I just want to be there to protect her and make her happy. I told her that I wouldn't go in, but if somehow, by miracle, there was a position to where I could avoid deployment, go home to her every night, and work a good, contributing job in the Marines, I'd sign up. But obviously, that will never be possible, as all soldiers have a chance for deployment.
I'll just have to give this dream up because I have a more important dream of marrying her and joining her band and helping her make it as far as she can with her musical dream and having a happy life with her.
If that sums anything up for anyone wondering.
