Damn straight people cheered, but I bet not nearly as loud as we did on base. Those of us in the military at the time despised the pants dropper, but not nearly as much as 0 is despised now.
Oh, no doubt! 0’s military popularity has to be exponentially miniscule, even compared to Duh Bubba! It’s bad when the current C-I-C can’t even rate being called a REMF!