Well, HELL YEAH! Any real man wants to be where the shit's happening, for at least one hitch so he can say with a clear conscience that he did his part in the Real Deal. Anyone who doesn't get that would NEVER understand the St. Crispin's Day speech in Henry V. I'd much rather have been sent there than where I am now on this tour.
Don't bother trying to tell that to the DUmbshits, though. A man willing to fight for his country is a joke to them.
Regardless of where GWB ended up being assigned, you don't strap a single-seat fighter like the F-102 to your ass and blast off into night missions without some major cojones. Yet the DUmmy definition of "courage" is to link arms and sit on the sidewalk in front of a recruiting office in Berkeley.