Topix Underground

It wouldn't even have to be military service. It could be similar to the NRA or whatever Public Works thing Roosevelt did where they planted all those trees up north and built roads, etc.  Serve the nation and gain experience. There is no downside. That is why China and Russia thinks American kids are pasty-faced pansies -  because they sit around playing video games all day instead of working in the fields and shovelling coal and so forth.