Suppose there were a reverse bootcamp, like a program to help you become more like a civilian. What would it include? Would you want to go?

No. I was raised military and didn't know it until I was in boot. While everyone around me was long haired and sloppy. I was spit shined and had my shit in one sock. The military stream lines thinking. If your on this sight, you already should understand that preparing for the job, is the job.

Something that would need to be included is how to speak in the civilian world. My spouse is still active duty. Around post I will hear leaders speak to each other like "and then we're fucking going to fucking do this, and after that we'll grab that one fucker and make him fucking do that, all the motherfuckers will be mad, and fucking hopefully we'll have fucking formation at fucking 1700 so we can fucking go fucking home." In a normal tone of voice. I hear conversations like this everywhere, in the gym, at the food court, at the library. Language like that doesn't get one very far in the civilian world.

Maybe something similar to the National Guard/Reserves. While they are in this, we'll call it Drill status. They take a few courses in finances, resume building, and some others subjects, offer counseling for the transitioning out phase if they so choose all while keeping it somewhat military as they adjust out of it moving toward Civilian life.

I'm NG myself, we have a lot of guys who enjoy Civilian life but couldn't break away from the military so they went Guard or Reserves so they could kind of do both. Those that I have talked with it's a mixture of loving it and hating it. So it works for some but not all. Some told me they thought it was great until their unit was up for deployment, especially if it was soon after joining the RC because then for a period of time they were Active again so it kind of undid the transition.