Allow me to be the dissenter.<p>If you're doing this for the military or the government, I would urge you to consider if your work is contributing to all of the wrong reasons why we (as a country) are there, or if it's going to contribute to helping correct the mistakes that got us there.<p>Is war really something you want to experience?  Things are calm there now, relative to a few years ago, but - imho - still is a pretty bad place for American civilians.<p>Anyways, if it were me, it would more or less come down on the morality of what I'm contributing to directly through my work.  Yes, 200K is a lot of money, but there isn't any reason, if you're good, that you won't eventually be making that every 1.5-2 years in a metropolitan area like NYC.<p>This is all under the assumptions you'd be working for the US government.