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Most veterans I know are broke and don't know it.
Not because I'm chasing girls or running from something. Because $2,800 a month here lives like $9,000 in San Diego, and I needed runway to build something instead of grinding a W-2 until I'm 50.
Most of the guys I served with are still trading time for a paycheck. Some are doing fine. Some are not. A few are gone.
What I've noticed is that almost none of them actually own anything that pays them while they sleep.
They've got a TSP they set to G Fund in 2015 and forgot about. A Robinhood with $400 in some stock a guy in the smoke pit told them about. A truck note bigger than their rent.
That's not wealth. That's a hamster wheel with camo paint.
I spent two years losing money trying to trade my way out. Options. Crypto. Earnings plays. All of it.
What finally worked was the most boring thing on earth. Buy real assets. Hold them for decades. Add money every two weeks like clockwork. Ignore every clown on YouTube screaming about the next crash.
Same discipline that got us through boot camp.
Same discipline most of us threw away the day we ETS'd.
Investing isn't something someone uses to get rich, it's something you use to stop being the person who has to trade time for money.
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Most veterans I know are broke and don't know it.
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