I didn't have a "smart" MOS I was 13B because they offered an enlistment bonus and it was the "real Army" being combat arms in my seventeen year old mind.
I was a man of the system back then, and when I was in ROTC I asked for 11B and to quote another movie," I was rewarded for my sins." With a granting of my request for a double slot, as a freshman, in airborne and air assault school for the summer unpaid as a cadet.
It wasn't until later in life that I started to think for myself.
Have you ever served unpaid?