Whilst very pleased to see service personnel back in uniform in public again, I'm not sure I'm comfortable with this US style automatic adulation of anyone in uniform. I think it belongs with this "all nurses are angels" nonsense. A bit of respect and understanding is one thing, but spontaneous rounds of applause as you walk through departures is just embarrassing!
BTW we've had a few threads on similar subjects - here's one I started last year
http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...rm-public.html Got quite heated over whether hats were mandatory outdoors, as I recall!