10 Military Habits That Make Service Members Stand Out

a. Taking charge quickly in an emergency
b. Viewing projects of life as the close, intermediate, and far fights.
c. Sometimes being overly truthful.
d. Some of us will read about military affairs and start to connect the dots.
e. Wonders what happened to his soldiers.

Old habits die hard especially if more than a quarter century has been spent in uniform.

Flexibility. Everything we do evolves around a plan of some kind, written or unwritten. We often times find ourselves having to deviate or scrap a plan to make a new one. I personally think this is a trait that is Military only being to me, in the civilian world, to make changes like that costs money and can directly impact a company's bottom line. The military doesn't have a profit margin that has to be met.