Well ginger, you can always enlist and find out. And when you say 'you military people' you sound a little haughty and superior like it is some other breed. I am not career military. I spent 4 years in college, was requested by my country to serve, and enlisted so I could pick what and where. I did my time returned to college for post graduate work, and then spent a career in the field of computer technology. That is the 'you military people you are talking about. Most who serve are not career soldiers and now, many are part time soldiers who get activated. I am so fucking glad you are 'holier than thou'. I hope you never face the danger of the 'hours of tedium spiked by minutes of terror' and the underlying tension that never goes away. You may very well be some pious churchgoer who loves to judge. Well next time in church, thank God, you never killed or saw killing, or suffered the deprivation of a spouse who could be killed any day, or the stress of managing a single parent family on military pay. You are soooo naive because you have been so fortunate.