Like I said, he could do one tour to get a taste of it. 2-4 years, and only real movement would be 1-6 months in the beginning for training. So that's not a lot of movement, unlike a career. But yes, at the end of the day, if the girlfriend will not support his life long dream, [u]he has to decide what's more important.[/u] I vote life long dream being more important, since to my thinking, girlfriend/boyfriends are expendable and interchangeable. It's not like they're married, or even engaged, so can't be that serious. At the end of the day (and his life) he has to look in the mirror and justify his actions to himself, and no one else.