That's why a friend of mine joined the army engineers. As a civil engineer working for a local city he might be involved in a 10year process of approvals to ad

That's why a friend of mine joined the army engineers. As a civil engineer working for a local city he might be involved in a 10year process of approvals to add a freeway on ramp. Where most of his job would be checking that an army of subcontractors were all doing things to code - not that they were doing things well, just to the written requirements In Afghanistan if they want a road or a barrier he basically finds somebody lower rank points at a bulldozer and tells them to do it. An interesting point he made was building a simple village clinic with a clean water supply that would save lives for a few days work and a few $1000. At home he would be involved in a multi $100M, 20year project for a new hospital where most of the money would go into pretty decoration and parking structures and would probably end up costing lives compared to the existing old hospital that was working perfectly well.