That sounds all hyper-patriotic - and I"m sure a lot of folks will knee jerk agree - but it's demonstrably false. A case can be made that there was very little noble about being in the armed services from the end of Nam through the Carter administration. So those who were 18 in the years of say 1970 through the year 1980 had little motivation to join as an example. Lot of folks joined then simply as a jobs program.
Besides, if every man is a soldier, who the hell does the rest of the work?
Why wasn’t it Nobel. Because John fn Kerry and his communist friends spit on our soldiers and told us they were baby killers?