Is the military a good career choice for someone lacking direction?

I am referring to my nephew, who I mentioned in a previous question. As a quick recap, my nephew is a 23 year old college dropout sharing a building that my brother describes as squalid with a bunch of college students he does not share much in common with and who he does not care much for. He is working at minimum wage as a waiter. He has largely cut himself off from the rest of the family. He did not send a card or call my brother for my brother’s birthday. He hates his life but will not get professional help, which my brother has offered to pay for. When my brother offered to pay the difference for moving into better quarters, my nephew’s response was that my brother should find the place for him.

Maybe what my nephew is lacking is self-discipline, the ability to recognize a problem, formulate a plan and then act on it. This is where the military comes in. I am making the assumption that it is possible to find a guaranteed stateside non-combat position. The military would remove the need to make a lot of decisions. It would provide a place to stay, take care of meals and provide heath care. My nephew is not stupid and he looked fit and trim the last time I saw him a little over a year ago. He has an interest in music and has fiddled with an electronic music mixer. There must be a position in electronics that he could be trained in that would provide employment if and when he decided to leave the military.

There are a lot of anecdotes about people whose lives were turned around by joining the military. My nephew’s political views are on the conservative side of the spectrum, so he does not share my knee-jerk 60’s-child aversion to anything military. Could this be the solution to his problems?