Being in the Service

GI Party "began as a project that would allow servicemembers to publish entries to their own personal journals hosted on GiP so as to allow friends and family to keep up with the lives of those in the military. Civilians who might be considering a life of service could also come here to get a variety of perspectives on life in the military." [via nsop]

Having never understood why anyone would voluntarily join the military, this is actually kind of interesting ;)

UPDATE: Keith Morris asks fellow soldiers why they joined, and some really interesting comments have been posted.