@pollyanna: Thank goodness there are those that do choose to be soldiers, But what makes you choose and not your neighbour to do a tour of duty. I believe it is what makes SP, SP
That's a nice thing to say, @polly, and I wish I could say I was all John Wayne and "Remember the Maine" and Three Cheers for the Red-White-'n'-Blue and stuff, but in my case what made me take the crown's salt was sheer boredom.
I was nearing the end of my first term at university, walking down the street to the pub, passed by the recruiting office, noticed this poster of a jeep with a machinegun parked in front of a Hollywood-cute half-timbered German house, said to myself, "Hey, that doesn't look bad," and the next thing you know 20 years had gone by.
So you might be right -- if spur-of-the-moment decisions reached without systematic thought make SP, SP, then by golly....!
