Facts not in evidence are assumptions and you make a LOT of ass umptions.
I enlisted in the Corps and am proud to have served. We now have an all volunteer military and those who are patriotic enough to serve are too precious a resource to waste on the fantasies of some nutcase who fancies them self the equal of an ancient Chinese general.
Go get a few more video games or the nice old ones with hexes on the map with kewl cardboard troops to maneuver around and kill by the thousands.
Conservatives in this country have had more than enough of people full of theory and devoid of common sense sending the best of us off to be slaughtered and maimed while they gradually destroy the Republic in the name of grand International schemes.
You're a living example of the truism that all soldiers have strong opinions and many of them will tend to be opposed to fighting the battles they've had to personally participate in. And in grousing about their assigned duties, they're exactly the same as all other working stiffs in the civilian world.
I haven't really thought of myself as being the guy's equal (or, for that matter, his inferior or superior). Zhang Fei was portrayed as a bit of an idiot savant in the 14th century novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", whose sole saving graces were his (1) individual fighting skill and (2) unshakeable loyalty. I used the name on a whim, simply because it sounded exotic and clearly fictional, just from a quick Google search. The entire period was interesting, because it appeared, for a time, as if the newly-established Chinese empire (~400 years old at the time) might follow the path of the Roman Empire in dividing into its component pieces, presaging the establishment of Europe's modern nation states. And yet the Chinese empire has endured to the present time, along with the dozens of languages that are still spoken within its boundaries.