I'm waiting for the special, "Undisciplined weanies who live in hotel-like dorms, eat great food and get to say they are in the military: the History of the US Air Force."
Hey...wait a second! That would describe what I did!
Ivan - when I was in the Air Force my first duty station was RAF Chicksands, England http://www.chicksands.com/. It was located in a pastoral section of Bedfordshire. No flight line. It was an intelligence base. It used to be an old English Priory. My room was in a hotel-like building. No P.T., no marching, nothing that even resembled the military. It was great duty. When a Marine intelligence unit TDY'ed with us for a few weeks they wanted nothing to do with us. They couldn't believe how we lived. (I think they were jealous!)