"As it happens not everything is better in the US Armed Forces"
Only true on the return leg. Reach will always get you too some far flung destination....then tell you you will be bumped on the return. I was burned on this down in Oz. Had to pay my way back as I wasn't going to get on. Spent as much money as a civvie on vacation. Those one way tickets purchased last minute are reeeaallyy expensive.