Your military image on the outside must match your surroundings, but they can never truly take away your personality.

When you are dancing in a trench on a windswept hill in freezing weather, just trying to avoid hypothermia, humming a dance tune in your head and laughing at everyone round you being grumpy, they can never take away who you are inside.

Whilst my manliness was changed by the army, the majority of my character never was, as in many ways I was already stronger than what they tried to brainwash me into. High intelligence can never be subverted by their drilling and beasting.