# Ex-military Dopers, is there anything you miss about military life?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 6, 2014, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ex-military-dopers-is-there-anything-you-miss-about-military-life/694951 "2014-08-06T15:36:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ex-military-dopers-is-there-anything-you-miss-about-military-life/694951/21 "2014-08-07T13:44:18Z")

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> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> I suppose I miss having a job that occasionally involves really cool stuff (like manning the bridge on a surfacing submarine, which is definitely the coolest thing I’ve ever done that I can discuss in polite company). Most of the job did not involve really cool stuff, though, so I’m very happy to be done (and very happy that I did it).

Ditto. There were some really cool things to do and outrageously expensive stuff to play with, but not often enough to make up for the long days for months at a time.

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ex-military-dopers-is-there-anything-you-miss-about-military-life/694951/22 "2014-08-07T14:05:17Z")

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> [@aruvqan](#):
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> ROFLMAO - I loved camping one Pennsic with Bloodguard. Household was full of military guys, I asked for a sump for water, next thing I knew I had a 6’x6’x6’ pit next to the cook tent :smack:😃  
> [URL=“[http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/](http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/)”]

Fortunately (especially with the DOS), I found that if there was a job you really didn’t want to do, you could just ignore it and it would go away; and there were no consequences. It was the damnedest thing.

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**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ex-military-dopers-is-there-anything-you-miss-about-military-life/694951/23 "2014-08-07T16:56:02Z")

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I have 2 friends that served in Iraq. They get anxious and paranoid in public now, best they can explain is they don’t have the security of their squad and leadership any more. While in the military they could depend 100% on their fellow soldiers, but many people out in public are just looking out for themselves, and of course the discipline they were used to is largely nonexistent.

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