Steve, I think you missed the point of my "idealistic ramblings". It's great you got to see the world and shit, but you didn't need to join the military to do that. I'm gunna go traveling for a few months this winter, see the world, learn some shit too and not get blown up by a roadside IED.

I'm being a realist by the way. I never said that I don't condone the army or that in a time of war, given the right circumstances, that I myself wouldn't volunteer. I'm asking if the guy has the balls to kill someone in combat. That's it. Plain and simple. Either you can handle it or you become a regular to a psychologist and some expensive Pfizer anti-depressants.