On a superficial glance, being in the army is a brave thing. When you go a little beneath the surface,you might not like the things you discover. First of all being in the army is about submission. You have to submit to other people's (your superior's) whims. You are trained to follow their orders. Their orders might be right or wrong but you have to follow it. Does that mean you are not allowed to have a conscience? You have to bomb a helpless woman and helpless child because you are ordered to do so. You may even begin to enjoy killing others. You have to sell your humanity to join the army. Secondly, army is nothing but pawn of the government. The govt officials have the big talks and they have the big ballroom dances and in order to protect their way of life, in order to protect their social status, they have to move their pawns in a calculated game to sustain their own survival. Right now Bush is sending troups to supposedly kill terrorists, but there have been thousands of innocent casualities. It's possible that future generations can term this current US invasion as Genocide. The people who make up the government are mere mortals and they have their wants and needs, and trust me they love their money and power, and will want to continue to have it as much as possible. The army then becomes the pawns in thier personal agendas. Thirdly, the US govt could have spent the hundreds of billions of dollars they are spending in war to improve the security within the country. But they choose to make the army personels expendable by initiating war with weaker countries killing thousands of innocent civilians. With the hundreds of billions that they spend on war they could have built a very good system of security within the US. But they choose to make the army a pawn in their gamble to eradicate the world of terrorists. In trying to eradicate terrorism, they are infact creating more terrorists. With each innocent victim, they are creating more and more terrorists. So in fact, instead of eradicating terrorists, they are creating more and more.