User blog comment:Griever0311/Ask A Marine Part Quattro/@comment-1260687-20100327064704

@DarthKenobi0: There are height limits that can preclude you from certain occupations, and even from military service altogether, but there are also waivers for things like that; I don't remember the exact limits, but we had a radio operator who was barely 5'1".

All right. As to your reasons, one is excellent, the other's not. Make no mistake; serving in the armed forces at the present time, especially in an infantry combat role, almost ensures that you will engage and destroy human targets. This is something that a serviceman must be prepared for and constantly expect, but taking the life of another human being should never be done willingly without just cause, or out of a simple desire to "kill terrorists." That said, you'll encounter plenty of hostiles in a combat arms MOS.