Even if all the training only gives him a basic understanding of what troops do, it raises him above the untrained man in the street, who on the whole has no idea what it is like to be yomping with a heavy rucksack across mountains and/or boggy ground. Has no idea of having to keep going when every muscle is crying out for mercy or is discovering muscles most of us, for all our trips to the gym, don't know exist!
Apart from anything else, the forces can instill a sense of personal discipline in a person. It also forges an unseen bond between the men/women who serve, whether in a war zone or running stores. As long as he is seen to complete the same training that any other man or woman is expected to complete, then he has ever right to wear a uniform.
IF the military (ordinary ranks and officers) start to complain, then would be the time for the PTB to worry. Apart from a few gripes about his limitations being ignored to allow him the flight training and ultimately his wings, most
serving men and women do not seem to have a problem with it.
