Personally I don't see how ignorance is an excuse.

If he survives his military career, he is going to wake up in 20 years time with nightmares of friends he saw blown to pieces, people he killed, likely have a drink problem to suppress it and finally have the maturity to question why the government really sent him to some dusty shit hole in the first place.

We lionize the military because the alternative is to realise that we are complicit in a load of sketchy shit that allows us to live in comfort. We canonise them with ceremonies and the like to neatly wrap a bow on any further thinking we might otherwise engage in.

It's a bit like religion, at what point do we stop allowing people to believe whatever bollocks they want and actually go "hang on, this is idiotic" without fear of being politically incorrect?

Sounds like he's good at knobbin' birds though, so let's all focus on that

edit: anyway he's probably a troll