If you cant, or I assume more accurately wont understand that then you simply have no base upon which to intelligently discuss military matters.
"I, ----- do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."
See to me these words are as close to Holy as you can get. Not much room in there for discourse. I am a servant of my country, first and foremost. I take pride in my service, and in the men that I served with. When my nation calls on me to fight I don't ask why, I surrendered that right when I knowingly singed on the dotted line. I simply grab my rifle, rally my troops and go where I'm told, and do what mission is there waiting for me.
As to "why" people do it, well those reasons are varied. Some do it out of familial tradition, some because they want the college money. I joined because I wanted to serve my country, plain and simple. You don't serve your country, in the military anyway, by questioning orders.
But again if you wont understand that then I'm just typing at a wall...
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