"You tear young men away from everything they have built up in their lives - homes, families, careers"
Many of them have built up nothing. Either from lack of desire to (like my brother) or because they just haven't had time to do much yet.
Your phrasing presupposes they're being wrenched away from something they don't want to be taken away from, when, for many of them, the military is a better family for them than what they came from, or gives them a sense of purpose and direction they didn't have before.
Obviously, that's not true for all of them, but as they've all had to CHOOSE to be there, i'd say it was true for many of them (taking into account some probably got forced into volunteering either from parental or social pressure, or something like a judge giving them a choice between the military or jail).
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