Why would one choose to be a soldier?

[lookout123]

Can you honestly say the world is a better place because of YOU? What do you do?

uh yep. i help people live a happy retirement. i help them send their kids to college. i help people save for their home. i help people with their estate planning so that their families will be less burdened upon their death. i help people to have peace of mind.

your question is sort of like one part of the body asking another who is more important to the whole. stupid and pointless.

They are excited by big guns and loud noises and battlegrounds. Lets not forget these are KIDS. They don't know what they're getting into until their mates brains splatter their armour.

did you get that from the movies or from your time in the military. you don't get it. you don't spend time with the people in order to get it. you are so condescending that when you do meet them you probably just filter everything they say through your idea of what they really mean.

Well that's possible the most ridiculous thing I've heard. What do you think I'm doing here?

the pedestal you're used to standing on has slipped. it is jammed so far up your ass that you can't see that there is a difference between loving your job, or calling - and being a bloodthirsty thug. you use the same line of reasoning that marichiko did before her implosion. you think the government is criminal, the military is bumbling, and you talk to one or two soldiers who surprise, surprise, fit your expectations, so therefore the military is a ship of fools eagerly seeking death and destruction.