She was born and raised there, she married my German friend who teaches at Goethe, is why she now lives in Germany.
My guess is that being female, she managed to never notice anything related to that aspect of Swiss life.
M guess is that being a liberal (as you said she is), shes looking you straight in the face and lying right down to her very bones, on behalf of the needs of the collective, with absolutely zero conscience problems.
It’s impossible to miss. I lived 7 years in Switzerland and spent another 5 working for a Swiss company here in the US and therefore travelled back there quite a bit.
The soldiers mostly travel from their residences to the place of their deployment by public transportation. You see them in their uniforms carrying their gear on the trains. They go out on maneuvers to different areas in the country and their movements cannot be missed. They miss work each year for their training and cannot be fired for this time away.
And those who are dismissed from military duties are instead assigned duties with the civil services. Each home and apartment block has bomb shelters built into them, which also doubles for a good wine cellar.