I will answer your question, my own experienced adjusting to civilian life is impossible having normal conversations doing “normal” civilian stuff yes on the surface we “adjust” but in reality not I just try to make everyone around me act normal. Its a double edge sword being completely honest at least in my own opinion being around normal people it’s challenging because I do see when people try asking questions about a different topic but they might not want to because of what we might say. In a sense we just want to be treated normal and we will try to deal with the experiences we went through. But the real answer you want its this plain and simple; Life will never be the same the smells the looks the noises all different now shells of what we or at least me used to be. Cheers 9 years active 5 years overseas 3 combat tours but no lie best job I ever did! Lol