Partly, but boot camp mostly serves as cultural indoctrination. I will add that the camaraderie most people miss when they leave the service is from losing the

Partly, but boot camp mostly serves as cultural indoctrination. I will add that the camaraderie most people miss when they leave the service is from losing the daily interaction with people whom relationships were formed through adversity, even just the humdrum daily adversity of military life. This is why all of my friends, even if we didn't serve together, are ex-military. They just "get it".