But an officer detailed to psychological warfare must remain attuned to civilian life even if he has seen no one out of khaki for two months straight.
The appearance of huge newspapers, systematic advertising, calculated political publicity, and opinion manipulation in other forms made it inevitable that skills which developed in civilian life should be transferred to the military.
Over 14 million men and women who served in the armed forces in World War II have now returned to civilian life.
Studies will be undertaken to determine the need for measures to ease the readjustment to civilian life of men required to enter the armed forces for two years of service.
But when the excitement and tension wore off its effect was lost, and in base hospitals the soldiers were no better patients than young men in civilian life.
The sense of property, so strong in civilian life, which is implanted so carefully into the little child, seems lost in the first month of a man's army life.
They labored harder than any worker in civilian life, sleeping in the rain, marching, carrying their heavy rifles and packs made mercifully light for the occasion, digging in the clinging clay of the Somme valley.
The NAACP hammered away at the segregation angle, informing its public that the old system, which had fathered inequalities and humiliations in the Army and in civilian life, was now being followed by the Navy.
The Special Programs Unit established a remedial training center for illiterate draftees at Camp Robert Smalls, drawing the faculty from black servicemen who had been educators in civilian life.
Bullets, shells, and bombs took their toll day by day, but so gradually that we had been given time to forget that we had ever known the security of civilian life.
Nearly all of my comrades were used to clear-cut class distinctions in civilian life.
There was no pleasant stir and bustle of civilian life.
Civilian life ended at the western end of the village street with the abruptness of a man brought face to face with a high wall.
A sergeant, whom I knew to be a distinguished young scholar in civilian life, was always throwing messages wrapped round a stone into the German trenches; the messages were killingly funny, amiably indecent, and very jejune.
The food came to us fresh every day in a freight car fitted up like a butcher's shop, in charge of a poilu who was a butcher in civilian life.
The constructive critic in the army and out of it, in France and in civilian life at home, will have increasingly much to do; not one iota of service for the soldier and sailor can we afford to abate.
And he is living on a moral plane which is above the moral plane of civilian life at home.
Lieutenant Gustafson, an Illinois boy, who had, in civilian life, been a head waiter at summer hotels, managed the mess.
One of my lieutenants, a gallant young fellow, was a waiter in civilian life, a captain was a chauffeur.
On the other hand, many men serving in the ranks came from professions ranking high in the scale in civilian life.
In civilian life we have been allowed to work out our own salvation, and if we have been part of a machine at all it has been a huge social machine in which we did not figure as a cog but rather as an attachment.
In civilian life, too, a man usually chooses with scrupulous care his roommate or mates.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civilian life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
