Congrats!
I was gonna join the marines when I got out of high school. Oddly enough (or not) an uncle of mine who served with the Marines in Vietnam talked me out of it. Then, in a strange twist, my cousin (his son) went and joined behind his back after 9/11 and wound up serving with the 2/6 Marines in Iraq. I have never seen my uncle so pissed off as when he found out my cousin joined the Marines.