I don't mean to be insensitive, but who doesn't want to change out of their work clothes ASAP? I think it is funny seeing cops buy beer in uniform and shit, and they are probably breaking rules by doing it most of the time. I think if you see two guys wearing military stuff in a bar, it isn't any more impressive than seeing two dudes wearing uniforms from a trash disposal company. It's a job that you at least partially choose. And if it mkes you safer, that's a positive.
If anything the can dick around for several minutes changing clothes and get paid. I know a lot of police departments do this now too. It seems to me at times that military people like to wear their gear to get sucked off by the public. I think I would rather be safer in public, even to a slight degree, than have somebody at a Shell station give me a free 32 oz Mt. Dew.