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Originally Posted by Gregster
"Timmy" generally doesn't work 24/7. His company don't own his ass, can't cancel his vacation on a whim, and is not likely to abruptly order him away from home and family for months on end, including sending him to hot, dirty, smelly, unpleasant shitholes where the locals may or may not start shooting at him or detonating homemade bombs at any given moment. Among other things.
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Some may, some not. And not every military member is deployable. And not every military member fights in wars. I wonder in the history of the US military, what would be the ratio of those that had to fight in a war to those that never saw combat. Regardless, military job choice is a personal decision. Everyone is free to choose a job that won't see combat if they like. And yes, a civilian has a little more personal freedom usually. Does that make up for a engineer being out earned by a high school graduate that sits at a desk shredding papers? To me, not at all. I see the military almost as a last resort job for most people. They can't cut it in college, but don't want to do manual labor. That is my opinion. You are free to disagree all you want.