I have several reasons why, I chose "interested in the engeneering" because I think this is the beginning of it all.
When I still was a kid, I was fascinated by airplanes. I went to airports several times with my father to see those birds taking off and landing. And it was impressiv, I mean those things are huge and really heavy, but still they fly like birds. So relatively early I became interested in technologies. (A bit strange is the fact that I always had problems with math but was quiet good in physics.)
This interest extended first to military planes. Over that I came across the Bundeswehr somehow. That was the time when I also became interested in politics on a rudimentary level. I started thinking about the role a military plays in a modern world and what it stands for and got caught by the ideas.
This in turn led to a wider interest in military technologies in special, and to a wider interest in those in general.
Politics and history are things that also come into play here.
Well, so I ended up where I'm now.
After school I joined the military a draftee. During that time a made the final decission to become a volunteer and apllied (?) for the duty.
I chose the job of a GAF pilot. I went through the test phases last summer. So I thought I could start in october-06 or I'm not suited for it. The dumb thing now is, the last test results weren't ready early enough. So I got out of duty last nov but can pretty sure start next august.
After all the benefits I got during my education and upgrowing (?) (I just had the luck to be born in one of the richest, savest and IMO just best
country in the world and I decided it's worth fighting for what it stands and paying back something for what I recieved; oh how pathetic).
Somehow many people around me don't understand me really in that regard.
And while surfing through the net I stumbeld across SDF. I'ver looked at several defence-forums and never liked them because it so often is an unfriendly atmosphere. This is however different here. It's very constructive and you learns something here. But perhaps even more importan is the fact that you can talk to so many people with similar interests in a civilized manner.
edit: holy crap is that long ...