Quote Originally Posted by hobitopia View Post
Also, it really gets to me when people complain about how the military is so hard. It's not. There's always somebody telling you what to do and how to do it. When it gets right down to it, unless you hold a leadership billet, all that's required of you is to be where you're supposed to be, when you're supposed to be there, wearing the proper uniform.
I'll speak for myself here when I say that's why it would be hard for me. I have issues with authority, in that I refuse to obey or listen to someone who has shown me they either don't know what they're doing, or I disagree with what they tell me to do. I cannot obey an order I don't agree with, and I will gladly fight and argue with anyone who tells me to anyways. This isn't to say I disobey every order, but if, for whatever reason, I disagree with one or two people in the chain of command above me that directly affect my perceived well-being, I'm going to have some serious head-butting that will result in my leaving. This has happened at pretty much every job I've ever had.

That being said, if I had a leader I respected, I would obey even if I disagreed with what we were doing, but the likelihood of that happening is so slim I wouldn't even try it out.