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Yup. Which is why they tend to portray the military in the weird way that they do. They have a better sense of it near bases, particularly the mama-sans that interact with military personnel on a more regular basis, and not just work and leave. Otherwise, most Japanese don't have a clue. JSDF personnel are generally sharp, but extremely few people come from a military family. Like many modern Asian societies, they see the military as an abstract thing that is supposed to come save the day (or cause terror), with no real idea of how they work.
For example, I saw episode 24 and was wondering why Tatsuya kept holding his salute after it was returned by MAJ Kazama (assuming that the high school uniform counts as being in uniform). Of course, somebody should have told the director that there was an issue. The writer isn't necessarily to blame for it as the novel states that Kazama returned the salute, but he doesn't state that Tatsuya returned to the position of attention.
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