Complete ignorance of who military members are, how they are screened and recruited, and how they think is sadly the rule in the civilian world, not the excepti

Complete ignorance of who military members are, how they are screened and recruited, and how they think is sadly the rule in the civilian world, not the exception. In addition to having to pass a medical records screen, most US servicemembers come from the middle three socioeconomic quintiles of the population. It is literally a middle-class institution. Yet the trope lives on of the supposedly stupid military member who only joined because they had no options.