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Message: <blockquote data-quote="perrinmiller" data-source="post: 5147910" data-attributes="member: 88649">Felix1459: If you want the full rational OOC, here it is. Or you could have Nick ask IC. [sblock=Explanation]Nick’s two biggest influences for his adult life were the Marines, followed FBI HRT maybe, and his male relatives all being cops. Male children in some respects tend to have similar mannerisms picked up from their fathers and/or brothers; they cannot help it that’s the environment they developed in. To another cop he’s is going to subtly feel like an ex-cop, since he wasn’t an undercover operative trained to not be a cop. To a military person he will feel like an ex-soldier. Kara more that likely sees the Marine in Nick, and it feels like cop to her, SWAT guys and Feds are still cops too.  This has nothing to do with his job performance and whether he met the standards set down by his boss in the FBI.[/sblock][sblock=RL Experience]It’s a little hard to describe unless you have experienced it. I was a Naval Officer and this is all from my personal experience. When I see a man (For women, all bets are off, are just not enough of them compared to men; perhaps to another woman, they can tell, but I never asked one to find out) in the military wearing civilian clothes, I just know by looking at them and hearing them speak a little. I could tell if they were enlisted or officer and often branch of service after hearing them talk for awhile, even Marines and Army guys act different. Even if the guy is a dirtbag (most likely an enlisted in that case) you can still tell. This carries true for ex-military while they are still in their 20’s or even early 30’s as well, unless they really let them selves go like gaining 50 pounds.  Like the military, police and law enforcement leave similar impressions, especially to another cop who grew up around cops. It’s the little things, how you wear your clothes, your haircut, the way you carry yourself, word choices, posture, attitude, body shape and muscle-tone, and particularly how you handle firearms. It’s the training mostly, I still fold most of my clothes the same way I did on active duty, it’s just habit and it makes some sense. These subtle impressions carry even carry over to children of those professionals, but the signals will be more in attitude and way of speaking and take much longer to pickup. But an Army brat can generally tell another Army brat once they get to know each other a little. This holds true to other professions as well, people can sometimes just tell. A professional athlete can tell by looking at someone very quickly if they are the same caliber or not.  It’s kind of funny, when I watch TV and see actors playing military guys, many of them just can’t pull it off very well. Professionals can still sense their own.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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