You are funny...but I was a service brat....behind the gates, everywhere is pretty much the same. The O club pool in summer, the golf courses and tennis....and the west side of town near NAS was Navy. I went to parochial schools.
Before my high school years in Pensacola (thus my home town)...we had been stationed all over the US and one tour overseas (Guam).
My dad continued to work at Pensacola NAS as a defense contractor after retirement.
I am fairly aged in years, but I feel younger LOL.....I did graduate from high school the same year that the Mustang came out and the Beetles went on Ed Sullivan....
....sooo..my references are different...But when someone successfully reaches my age...they may have graduated high school, gone from boy to man in the service, completed their education after service, forged a career, found a life's love and raised a family, buried their parents and a sibling or two, and looked cancer in the eye...and thus they are what they are...and are fairly comfortable with it.
I'll take being old as a dinosaur...