Yeah, I think being in the military of any country is 99% shit duties, 1% cool stuff.
Had a friend in the US Army who did almost nothing after boot camp. Once a week, maybe a Wednesday I think he said, they would set up the mobile air traffic control tower he worked in, power it up, make sure everything tested, turned it off, powered it down, and went back to doing nothing for the next week.
He said all he did was get drunk and do that once a week.
Don't know if that's indicative of anything at all, and I often thought he was full of it, but he swore up and down that it was all. he. did.