"Things are different in the civilian world, you know," he said.
She didn't like that "chose to live in a civilian world."
The two of them - and the civilian world - call the arrangement a marriage.
Some of them had no family to go to, and felt a little uncomfortable out there in the civilian world.
He'd spent years in the Navy before returning to the civilian world.
The first is that the military must reach out to the civilian world.
As in the civilian world, some married people go to bars or other night spots.
Will you re-enlist or use your experience to get a job in the civilian world?
Plus we did pretty good out in the big, bad civilian world, too.
In the civilian world, development costs are borne by companies themselves.