Typically american this "serving" and military obsession. Guys and gals in uniform are civil servants, by choice.
They hand their lives to retarded politicians who send them off into (mostly) hopeless and useless conflicts. Not making the world safer, but keeping the military-industrial complex busy and generating new order for defence contractors.
You want to die in some messed up place 5,000 miles from your own country? You like and trust members of Congress? Then serving is something for you!