have a place, and they teach them to lead, not just take orders but to accept huge amounts of responsibility and to think on their feet and to do whatever it takes, and whatever it costs, to get the job done.

Completing the job is all important in the military, if you are told to get supplies over a mountain range within a certain time, then you have to do it, it doesn't matter what conditions you run into, or what the weather does, if you have to take a bridge, then you have to do it, or die trying.

The military teaches individual responsibility, and serving with people like that builds your trust in each other, that is one reason vets are comfortable with each other, they know that, that person has met a certain standard before, which while not always a perfect clue obviously, is sure more information than you have with a stranger who is not a vet.