[CaptainMattJ.]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

All I want to do is fly in the military.

And my goal was to serve in the U.S navy as a leg up in my future career in the maritime industry. I also wanted to do what i loved while serving my country. But they dont take people with asthma, no matter how mild and with few exceptions. (ive also heard something about peanut allergies being a 4F too but i dont know if thats true). But aside from my asthma i began to realize more and more of what that meant. Just because i wouldnt necessarily be the guy with his finger on the trigger, id be a part of it. In the military you dont have the luxury of deciding where you go, how long you go, and in the vast majority of cases, the weapons you fire and the people you kill. If you are given an order, by god you follow that order or they'll throw you in jail and not even hesitate. Killing another man doesn't become quite as difficult when it becomes a question of his life or yours. Kill or be killed.

Being in the military flying aircraft doesnt and shouldnt detach the reality that there is a very real possibility where you may be pitted against another man and be ordered to take his, and possibly many others, lives.