When people choose a career, whether military or any other, generally speaking I would say they do not prepare themselves, at the very start of the career, for that career eventually coming to an end.
In military settings, when a person joins the Canadian armed forces, you know the date the person joined and you know that eventually his or her career will come to an end. How do you prepare them for that moment? Is there any early preparation? I know the army always plans very well ahead and is organized. Do you do anything in the course of their service to make them aware of certain issues they'll have to face when they end their career, whether they end it early or after the full time of service?