answer:It doesn’t matter what we think, but what the people doing it think. For some, it’s just a job where they feel no attachment to the esprit de corps that is pummeled into your head from the start. For others, they are all about the lifestyle, then there’s the people in the between who shift between these ideologies. You also have kids who had to join to get their trust funds, kids who were given the choice to join or go to jail etc. It’s no different than any other job, people take whatever path they want for various reasons. Some people start out as “Joe Navys” or “Captain Americas” only to switch 180 degrees once the military screws them over somehow. Some do the opposite and hate it from the start and swear up and down they’ll get out after four years, but stay in because they learned to love it or had too many kids and need the medical benefits.