Join one of the US armed force branches 1st the sign on for the special forces within that branch, serve your time then get out. They will find you & recuit you at that point. That's how they recuited my brother (Navy Seal) for their involvenment in Nicaragua.
That way you can be assured the medical coverage when you'll need it at the VA, ourwise you may be left out in the cold.

You to can become a mercenary, althought the life you have to live with after may not turn out to have been worth it.

Mercenary: 1. A soldier working only out of a desire for money. 2. Hired for service in a foreign army. 3. A soldier hired to serve in a foreign army.

This def needs to be updated to include todays domestic hired armies which will be tomorrows future private government sponstered armies doing business in foreign lands & doing the bidding of 'for profit corporations' with the blessings of homeland national governements. Will this lead to a future of international corporate armies, or governements that can afford to have their own private armies under corpate umbrellas to supplement their federal forces to do what legally their regular armies can't by international law. An expensive way to circumvent liability, responsibility, international & national laws, domestic disapproval but cheaper in the long run. We taxpayers can foot the bill for their training in the regular armies only to have the specially trained leave for there higher paying counterparts, how's that gonna pay/play out in the future. I think that we've already started to open Pandora's box & we will not be able to close the floodgate if we allow this to go any farther without at the very least putting a lease to these WarDogs.

My thoughts on a mercenary, when you come home you should avoid contact with society & hide from the sight of other humans, you're the lowest form of life, you have choosen to put the value of humans below the value of a dollar, below the the life of a rat which contrubites nothing to nature, you are worst than the rat because you not only contrubite nothing you have brought disease back with you, every one that you loved or loved you will sicken from being near you, you deprive nature of the life that she gave, you leave destruction in your passing & you will in turn rot from the inside with a sink that you will never be able to escape even if others can't smell it & it will last untill you're covered in the dirt that you don't deserve to pollute. This is what becomes of the mercenary once they have killed for money PTS will be the least of your problems & no VA will find a cure for you. You might as well die now & do us all & yourself a favor before wasting your percious time signing up.

Barry