Does being in the military make you a puppet?

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Only if you allow it to.

While there is certainly more regimentation and uniformity in the military than most civilian professions, military members are still individuals.

Even if we think so, all you have to do is look at the guy who works crazy office hours 5 days a week and realize that the cubicle gets smaller for him. Its how you make it really. I talk to some if my friends who have corporate jobs and I feel the military has more freedom than they do...

While we tend to attempt to strip individuality to ensure the success of the "team", we never lose our individuality, I never did in the entirety of my 26-year career. You will have certain outlets that wish to have others in society view us as "puppets of the government" blindly following all orders from on high, but these for the most part that do not believe in the need for us to have a standing military to begin with; they view US as the problem with the world instead of all the bad guys out there. One need not lose themselves completely to be a good Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine or Coast Guardsman, IMHO.
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