>>Including you (but in reverse form), by the reading of your post :)
?? Tracy H was in the Military but I don't see her getting all worked up because somebody insists that civilians are in charge and scorns somebody else's Military service.
FWIW, more than a few Sci-fi future universes have special roles for military. E.g. Starship Troopers (you can't be a citizen unless you serve) and all the Seaforth sagas.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
