And also not everyone joins the miltary for purely unselfish reasons.
That's for sure. Just yesterday I was talking with a client who had just joined the army. He was tired of worrying about finding and keeping a job and said he plans to retire in the military. He is also quite adamant that, not only will he not have to go to Iraq, but also, that they will allow him to stay right where he signs up until he does retire. He said he'd been to 6 different recruiters, even in different states, until he found one that would give him what HE wanted.