It's all BS and non of it BS. The Navy is not for everybody yet most people can benefit from it. You will bond through adversity with other people, learn tolerance of absolute bullsh*t and find your inner self when there is absolutely nothing to do and nothing to look at that you have not already seen while you are sea. You will meet idiots, as*holes, weirdos, perverts, brainiacs and a few good friends. Some people are going to struggle mentally with civilian life as they move out of mommys house and start their own life, some will struggle with the Navy. It all depends on where you start from in your own noggin. Lots of people have been through it and come out fine.