You lived in a completely different world than the one I grew up in.
(BTW: I never said it was true of all soldiers.)
@240B I have never denied that I was incredibly lucky.
On the downside,that is the world I grew up in,being assigned to a SF Group for the first time when I was 18.
The downside was since that was the world I grew up in,I was "programmed" to believe that was the way the world worked in civilian life.
That part didn't work out very well for me,and to this very day I still have a tendency to trust people I shouldn't trust,and I have paid the price,over and over.