Although the military is strongly conservative, it’s a sad fact that among out GOP leadership military participation at any level is pretty piss poor. Gingrich aside, there are many guys who should have served but didn’t. There are many more who seemed to engineer their wartime military service to avoid combat. Guys like John Kline, Duncan Hunter and Alan West are truly the exception, not the rule, and that is a shame.
And you will notice that men like John Kline, Duncan Hunger, and Alan West are not baying for full-scale intervention in Libya. Maybe because men like Colonel West actually know what it's like to send people into combat and people like Gingrich only write about it in their novels.