Biased: do you feel that more and more people in the military are getting openly biased?

I believe we have always looked out for our own and continue to do so but with the advent and proliferation of social media and the state of the traditional media and how we are represented, we do come across as being biased. We are in effect a large, "special interest" group competing against all the other special interest groups for attention, funding and personnel.

My take on the question is yes members are biased in a way. Just like police officers who are on the job for many years. That start to look at most folks as criminals if they are not cops themselves. In the same way that we who have served believe only other military members can understand or even fix our problems. We have trust issues of people. So we have trouble looking at civilians as our equal.

Not sure if that is what you where going for, but that is my understanding of the question.

I think that on the whole, service members and veterans understand leadership. It was amazing to me that when first becoming employed as a civilian, how little my managers thought about what it would be like to be on the receiving end of their orders. Is there a bonding experience that happens when you inspect your soldier's feet? I think most trained in the military have a sense of what an illegal order is. Honor and integrity is a part of our training and culture. The stakes are too high to not have it be a priority.