The United States military is one of the last great institutions of the world that upholds and expects moral behavior.
I can't remember anywhere else that I've been or heard of where the inculcation of values has been as important (this is of course besides church).
I think many people don't realize this as a fact.
You don't know what values are until you are exhausted beyond belief and have to sit in a boiling hot room with one drill sgt telling you for hours about each of the Seven Army Values while two other drills yell in your face