Did you move out yet?

I moved out when I went off to college when I was 18 or so. Spent my first year at college in the dorm, and lived with my parents the summer of my freshman year while I worked full time at a nearby chemical company. The other summers in undergrad I found work in areas other than where my parents lived, so I would generally only see them during the time after finals and before my job started.

After finishing undergrad in the winter and knowing I wasn't going to start grad school until fall, I decided to move back in with my parents and find some sort of part time job so I could relax. It also happened that my brother was spending some time at home prior to starting law school, so it felt like I was back in high school. I didn't get into any arguments with my parents/brother, but I couldn't stand them fighting constantly, so I got a job working for a professor at my undergrad school and moved back out that way until I had to go to grad school (3,000 miles away).

Lived with random roommates for two years, and now I've been living with my girlfriend in an apartment for about a year now. I think it's actually the longest I've ever lived in one apartment without moving.

I still get along great with my parents and call them every three days or so.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Just gonna say, if you have any sort of smarts you'll do ROTC instead of joining the military outright. You're guaranteed your college education is paid for before you even start serving, you get a monthly stipend to live off of, you're taken care of in the summer for work (get to/have to do tours), and when you do wind up serving you won't be starting on the lowest tier.

Unless you've got some really compelling reason to put off going to college I don't see why you'd ever plan on enlisting straight out of HS over ROTC. Not to mention it'll put off your service for 4 years, and hopefully by then our military obligations in the middle east will have been reduced.

There's nowhere I can't reach.