The military is more than front line combat roles. There are doctors, dentists, electricians, cooks, carpenters, mechanic’s, there are geo techs working on state of the art mapping programs.

All working toward the end goal of territorial command and control, typically of foreign soil.

I meet so many good people. We all learned to work together and become something better.

If you met the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker that helped make Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich's time in Afghanistan more enjoyable, that's cool. But the US Military doesn't keep an arsenal of 2000 lb bunker buster bombs for baking bread.

It kills the ego by putting everyone into a stressful environment and teaches you that you have to work with each other to accomplish goals.

Reducing people down to their Id so they're better team players might be more laudable if the team wasn't focused on searching for and snuffing out the lives of ego-havers.

The military has always been one the most progressive melting pots in our society

That's wildly ahistorical.