Hahaha...so it has been, so it will always be!
I was a young petty officer, full of snot, and thought I knew more than anyone else. I was mouthing off one day about the stupidity of the service, etc. (and it is true, all services and large institutions DO have a degree of inbred stupidity in them, that’s jus the way it is!) and a lifer 1st Class said to me (not unkindly, but...firmly): “Look. You think all of this is stupid and it sucks right now, but...you signed up for it. Nobody twisted your arm. Someday, you will look back on this as one of the most important and valuable times of your life...”
There are many times since then I wished I could have eaten my words, found that man AD1 Ingram, and shook his hand to tell him how right he was.
That was me too. I feel the same way now.