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.
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.
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.