No I was not “cool”. All I wanted was to get out of my One-Horse Hometown. I joined the Unted States Navy BEFORE I even graduated, that’s how bad I wanted out.
LOL
I ran into a very large number of “just wanted out of town” folks during my many years in the The Force. After retiring, met a large number of Navy vets with the same story.
I was in the same boat - taking any job I could find in my HS summer years that would take me out of town.
Quite funny in many ways - and the military did profit from their (our) service.