My husband was in the Air Force for 25 years; my father volunteered for the Army in WWII even though he was in his late 30s; my great uncle was in WWI and suffered from mustard gas all his life, and my great-great grandfather was a Major in the Civil War. I have a grandson now in the Navy, lately on the USS Carl Vinson. My first husband was in the Air Force and was killed in a plane crash in Alaska. I loved the military life back then, even though we lost friends in Viet Nam. I never knew any other married life until we retired. I thnk it is different now.