To his credit and as a former grunt myself, you won't survive in any army with an attitude of being the "rich kid" for longer than 30 seconds. (Although the Isr

To his credit and as a former grunt myself, you won't survive in any army with an attitude of being the "rich kid" for longer than 30 seconds. (Although the Israeli army is conscripted, so it could be different.) Being an infantry soldier is just about one of the toughest and bottom of the barrel jobs on the planet. Anyone who serves - in my mind - is automatically given the right to speak from the school of hard knocks.