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I don't know if it's still this way, but in the early 2000s the Marines used to not provide any guaranteed shot at a specific job in their initial contract. Marines had a lot more hurdles trying to slot into a specific job they were after, in some cases basically just being barred from what they wanted until it was time to sign a re-enlistment contract which was the only time they had any real leverage to force the issue.
The Army allowed people a guaranteed chance, assuming the person met all the pre-reqs to sign up for anything. Somebody could sign up for specific technical job if they had a civilian post-military career in mind. People could even sign up for Special Forces right off the street. Of course it just guaranteed giving people a chance at the job and a lot of high demand job contracts were actually pipelines to terrible jobs assigned by the Army when the person failed.
Both systems ended up with a lot of jaded people who ended up in jobs they didn't want.