Can a pacifist support the troops?

I am a pacifist. I am also in the Military. Sounds pretty unlikely, huh?

If you define vegetarian as people who eat meals with no meat in them, then nearly everyone is a vegetarian. If you define pacifist as someone who doesn't like war, then nearly everyone is a pacifist. If you define white as the color of any surface capable of reflecting light, then anything but black is white. But with those definitions, the words become so all-inclusive as to be meaningless.

A vegetarian is someone who never eats meat. A pacifist is someone who never goes to war. White is the color of any surface that reflects all colors equally.

A very good precedent for such a tactic exists. In August of 1945, the dropping of the first atomic weapons on Japan prevented the eventual costly invasion of the Japanese home islands (MacArthur said that the US would sustain 1,000,000 killed and wounded--Japanese casualties were predicted to number over 3,000,000). Here too, we sacrificed thousands to save literal millions. The atomic bomb saved lives.