[mburbank]

A.) You are a nutjob.

B.) " There has to be a certain point where one joins because it is who you are and the way that you want to make money."
-Kulturnutjob
Why do you suppose soldier and mercenary are two different words?

C.) " But really... Being a soldier is not something you can describe."
Then you just wasted a few hundred words, your time and mine

D.)" It's like being a Skinhead. The more you talk about what you are and what you do and what it means the more confusing it becomes and the more profound, yet at the same time more simple"
You confuse profundity with addled thinking. If you intention is to celebrate not being able to figure something out, the act of writing about it and posting is completely masturbatory. In addition, you are in a trembling ecstasy of self love over the same level of though commonly experienced by college freshman taking introduction to philosophy during the day and smoking way too much pot at night. If you are very lucky (and since you are posted in Korea and not Iraq, I'd say that's a given) You will leave service on two intact legs and not in a bag and will hopefully live to be embarrassed by these romantic solitary ramblings. Do actual Iraq combat vets ever get over to your part of the world? Maybe one could beat the romance out of you, and you could post it on Youtube.