>>27678080>punctualityHa.
I'm not saying you're wrong, because you're not, but being mil doesn't necessarily instill any sense of timeliness in a person either. I used to work at a pizza place that delivered to an amphib base, primarily navy but lots of marines and some army too. None of those fuckers could show up on time to meet our drivers at the quarter deck or ecp. You'd call them and tell them that you were on the way, would be there in five minutes, wait five minutes and then needed to leave as we weren't aloud to wait any longer. They'd say okay and I'm on my way down. You'd call again when you got there, say I'm here and will be for five minutes, where are you. They'd again say, okay and I'm on my way down. Ten minutes later on your way back to the store you get a call saying that they're down there and where is there food?
This shit happened nightly, several times a night. I'm not singling out military guys here because our civilian customers did the exact same shit at hotels and other locations that didn't allow us to go up into the rooms, but that's exactly my point. I expected when I first started there for base deliveries to be smooth and easy since I expected military guys would have that sense of punctuality and precision you talk about.
But they really weren't any different than any of their civilian counterparts.
And that's just timeliness. Aside from security, delivering to a base just wasn't different at all. Humans are humans and they all act pretty much the same in my experience. Being military didn't make any of them significantly different to deal with.
