As a veteran, one thing we can count on in life is for the Department of Veteran Affairs to fail us. A quick Google search will pull up multiple stories of our brothers- or sisters-in-arms dying in waiting rooms, waiting for the VA to help them. https://www.
In March 1865, President Abraham Lincoln established a national soldiers and sailors asylum to take care of the United States' veterans. The VA proudly talks about this on their official history page. The mission of the VA is to "provide health, education, disability, funerary, and financial benefits earned by Veterans..." Sadly, the VA, made up of imperfect people, frequently fails in this mission.
Veterans are used to broken promises. Many of us were promised this or that by our recruiters, only to discover that the recruiter didn't have the authority to make those promises, or that they were just plain wrong. Promises of support for active duty members and veterans by politicians are far too frequent to list. In short, the USA, and nations around the world, regularly fail their veterans.
There is one person who will never fail my fellow veterans: Jesus Christ.
The only begotten son of God was sent to Earth with a mission--save that which was lost (mankind--See Matthew 18:11). He lived a sinless life, but submitted to torture and execution to pay the penalty for all the sins of mankind--even sins that hadn't been committed yet. His Father, God, watched all this happen, and allowed it to happen. He then resurrected his son (Romans 6:4) -- just as Jesus has promised we will be resurrected after a physical death if we trust in him.
We can trust in Jesus because he fulfilled prophecies that were written 700 years before he was born. Hundreds witnessed him, resurrected, after his death on the cross. His followers faced persecution and execution simply for sharing their eyewitness testimony about Jesus. Everything he said he would do, he did. Everything he promises to do when he returns, he will.
If you haven't considered serving Jesus Christ, think about it now. There's no ASVAB test. No physical to take at MEPS. No Holy drill sergeant is going to try to shape you into something they deem worthy. All you need to do is believe that Jesus was the Son of God, who died on the cross to pay for the penalty for your sins, and then was resurrected three days later by his Father. If you accept Jesus as your one true leader, and try to turn away from sin and a sinful life, God will grant you eternal life, with his son as your perfect leader for all eternity.
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