well well well. Look who we have here.

If you got the balls to work on the cages but know how to handle firearms, why not take a fast track assignment to one of the contractor companies in Iraq? I know on the federal corrections side, they get offered those programs all of the time and I think sometimes with even the guarantee of going back to the old job at the prison when they return from overseas.

$10K to $15K per month is a pretty good way to build enough savings before chucking the system and just living off grid for in perpetuity.

Your comerades in the prison guard professions made damn sure my military career cut off at 17 years (and functionally was ended at 14 years but we were all pretending there was hope of finishing it). So getting older without a retirement plan is not really the end of the world.

Now try doing that with a felon tag on your record and you might even get serious about the next revolution, especially when that felon tag came from the simple exercise of your constitutional rights.