I think one of the more difficult elements of my transition from the reserves to the civilian world was.... I was quite young when I joined. I was 17, and a lot was ingrained in me. I learned a lot about life and the world from my time in the service, so when I transitioned to the civilian world, a lot of the really inappropriate behaviours that I experienced within my service were so normalized that they transitioned into my civilian career. In my mind, it was perfectly normal to experience sexual harassment, inappropriate touching and all kinds of inappropriate behaviour in my civilian career.
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