Later we may become civilians but we retain military ethos.
How true that is. I've worked with a few ex-forces people over the years, they're generally the ones who get on with the job and then moan about it aftewards (if at all), while the rest of us are still checking our conditions to see if they can (a) make us do it and (b) if they can, how much we can screw it for overtime. They were generally a lot better turned out than us too.
Stuart (Lifelong civvie who wishes he'd been less of a coward at 18...)