First off in any branch of the military you can pick your job, now that job might not be open at the moment or you might not meet the minimum requirements, I don't care but I thought I would be nice enough to put it out there. Secondly the various branches intelligence communities are all different from each other and I was privy to Navy's community I and will answer that way. 1.
No branch has a fun lifestyle it level of suck just done differently. I worked 12, 8, and 6 hour shifts during my 15 years as a CTT and only a handful of times was I needed to stay on watch for more than that. With most of those 12 hour shifts on a watchfloor while on shore duty.
Now you may have to stay up to do navy admin stuff like write reports or evals but that is not part of your watch standing duty. 2. Very few time will you be at the tip of the spear so to speak and if you were more than likely you would of been in more than a couple of years.
Most of the work done by intel is rather clerical in nature and is 99.99% of the time not exciting at all. 3. A cot is the same size as coffin locker just with less lockable space so if conditions suck too bad.
I have slept in office chairs while snowed, I have hot racked in the Torpedo room on a sub, and I have slept in a shipboard rack before and in all instances I slept perfectly fine. 4. The Air Force has the hottest females ask anybody that has worked a joint command and they will tell you the same thing.
Army definitely. You'd be making a mistake going into the Navy with their coffin sized bunks and getting woken up at all hours of the night by watch standers getting the wrong bunk looking for their relief. Not that you'd want to hit on any women anyway....
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.