You probably wouldn't have survived had you have been based in Germany during the early eighties through to the nineties and "Proudly worn your uniform outside of work.
I must have been in some alternate Germany 'cos I don't remember millions of PIRA teams running around 24 hours a day. We even invited the Box-Heads onto camp on a regular basis - where the hell were you? Biggest load of bolox was making ourselves invisible IMO> Pack up the tents because of a handful of incidents - are we the Womens Auxiliary Balloon Corps?