I was a year in the German Bundeswehr and I personally wouldn't recommend going to any armed forced if you're not motivated enough and don't like to wake up early I guess. I believe that I would have similar experience with the US armed forced if I would go there but with the exception with the broken equipment lmao
When I was at Bundeswehr, I experienced 2 trucks throwing a rod due to bad maintenance, my gun almost blew up because I had a squib load (
Explaination from a very good gun YT Channel) and once I was driving a armored motorcycle and the chain snapped.
Luckily we were not deployed into real war situation or things would go really bad with such an bad equipment XD