My friend Billy (some of you may know him as "Sins of Khardis") just did the same thing for the same reason. Signed up with the Navy, and is goin off to basic in a couple months. I don't think it's a bad idea at all; I've considered it myself, and I never had financial worries in college. Life experience, man. My only problem is that I'd be killing for a country I often forget I live in and a God that doesn't take sides