It's a different mindset than the citizen. I prefer being a
   citizen, although I can't compare by direct experience. The
   procedures they go through on a large scale that modify, shape
   and change a person's outlook, personality, opinions about
   things are pretty drastic and, from a social engineering
   perspective, amazingly effective. = They pay well enough,
   although their healthcare is crap and nobody gets rich. Military
   is well-funded and, in a sense, "expanding the military" is
   strangely a form of social welfare. It gives people with no $$
   somewhere to go, something to do. I can't say I necessarily
   _agree_ with military-as-welfare 'cause I don't - but I can see
   the reasoning behind it. ==