To start off with, one reason that shows that military students are different from civilian students is that we don’t complain over simple things. For example during my walks around campus I hear civilian students complaining over ridiculous matters, such as having to waking up early, that their outfits don’t look good enough or theres something with the food they buy from the cafeteria. To us this is nothing, we wake up earlier than seven, and usually we are up around four-thirty in the morning, we wear the same uniform everyday and we eat …show more content…
Since day one of boot camp all we hear are our drill instructors creative ways to insult us and even after boot camp we just insult each other for the fun or it. We don’t care because at the end of the day we are all brothers and we know we can joke around with each other. For civilian students however that is not the case. They are so sensitive that they now have safe spaces or safe zones around campus. That one little word can offend them even if you are not speaking to them. Military students roll with the punchs and know that words are words. Yes, sometimes we can get irritated over something that someone says, but we don’t go rushing to a safe space so we can feel better. We either stand up and argue back or just ignore it and for some reason civilian students don’t share the same views on that.
These are only a few of the many differences between military and civilian college students. I am not saying civilians have to join the military to undertand or be like us im just saying these civilian kids have to grow up and grow a