Look at the military itself, and the people who choose to serve their country. They do a job with more red tape and forms than the IRS, that pays less than what a plumber makes, that earns them less respect than your average gangbanger gets. They do their job twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. And I say kid, because throughout history most of the armed forces are made up of the same people in the gamer demographic. People our age have fought the wars in the past century, and I daresay wars in general.
Nobody has to put themselves in harm's way.
Even when there's a draft, you can always leave the country, or serve in a non-combat capacity. No one joins the military so they can go off to die. They join for money, for travel, for excitement, for job skills, for security, for family tradition, or even sometimes a sense of duty. The hazard to this job is that occasionally other people try to kill you. And sometimes, people die.