As much as I like having sex with men, it's just not a turn on in that environment. If anybody has ever seen the movie Full Metal Jacket, that was more or less what basic training was like. But without all of the swearing. Initial training was somewhat stressful. They are always rushing you around somewhere, even in the showers the DIs are still yelling at us. And it seems never ending.
And my partner was teasing me and asked me....you saw a guy in the shower with a nice tight ass, and never got hard? So I had to explain that it was a really tense environment. You are around people for the most part, you don't want to be around. It was like that for 8 weeks. I was only able to decompress after basic training was over.