If you want to be treated as an individual citizen with all the rights due to you under civil law then it's very simple. Be a civilian.
I could not agree more. As a mate once put it (A Cat, Sqn Exec, could paper his bathroom with AOCs,) when we were sunning ourselves on his yacht.
"The RAF is great and I loved every moment. But one day you wake up and realise you have outgrown it...then its time to go." He left and 41 and I left at 46, guess it took me longer to grow up