Awesome question, and yes it did help oh superior one
Having deployed to many spots in the world, Germany, France, Turkey, England, Saudi, Kuwait, UAE, S Korea, Japan , Qatar, Iraq and Afghanistan, I did get to experience the culture and the people and it did help me form some ideas of how things are and not how people want them to be or think they are
Thanks for the question
From flat tires to sushi, a true Renaissance man