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I had a buddy back in the day who moved out far from family/support network and when he realized he needed to come back and didn't have the resources, he joined the army and deliberately failed to finish training CW mental health/self harm
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(IIRC, he told his superiors that he was depressed and at risk of suicide)Eventually he got discharged and they sent him home (home home, not the place he'd made a mistake by moving to). To be fair he was actually depressed most of the time, he might have been being honest with them. I just always thought it was badass that he effectively scammed the US military into a cross country flight.
IIRC it's pretty straightforward to bail on the military prior to completing basic training. I think it's a "failure to adapt" designation or something. Kind of an "agree to disagree" kind of thing. It's a lot harder to get a discharge after you get a permanent assignment
And they would have paid him for the time he was there, but they would have made him work for a certain amount of days picking up garbage and stuff before letting him leave.