The bottom line is that your world and society is more and more removed from the civilian world and an unfortunate side effect of that is apathy and disinterest. Not a dig just a fact. If you take offence at that then you are locked in a world of self justification.
I would contend that this is a totally stupid comment. Britain today is not the Junkers' Germany of Bismarck.
We do not have an officer class nor a natural pool of licencious soldiery waiting for the Queen's shilling and the call to arms.
We have a citizenry that wishes to serve its country as a career. They are civilians. They volunteer. Many are rejected. Some are selected but they were still civilians first and will become civilians later, if they survive.
There is no 'your world' and a separate society although in some cities that may no longer be true. Many of the youth of today has the moral backbone to accept military discipline and let the military make men of them.
RK demonstrates just what right of passage they have to undertake.