Release
Precisely.
I was 18 years old when I deployed to Central America with my military unit on a 6-month deployment. Talk about a serious eye opener for me... we'd gone through several weeks of culture sensitivity training prior to deploying, so although we had an idea of what to expect - it was still a very enlightening experience. Nothing prepares a young kid for seeing that type of poverty and overall culture shock.
One morning on our way to our project site, I saw a heavy-duty tire strapped to the back of a young Honduran soldier, who was being forced to walk barefooted up this gravel road. He had a rifle pointed at him, and was being slapped and yelled at by two others who were there to oversee the punishment. Rumor had it that he'd attempted to go awol from the Honduran army, they found him and beat the living crap out of him once he returned. That image has never left me, nearly 30 years later.
We understood the consequences of getting in trouble. The way they dealt with things over there was far different from the processes usually entitled to us back home... and we basically had someone looking over our shoulders the entire 6 months, making sure we didn't get out of line. A majority of the people there were indifferent to us being there, but there were a few hostiles that resented us. Back then, what I made per month as a private first class in the army was equal to an entire year of salary for a Honduran soldier, and the Honduran military paid well as it related to average income for the country. So naturally - there would be some who would resent that, even within the Honduran military (who were tasked with securing our project site off-base). We were always on guard for anything that didn't look or feel right. If there were no Honduran military personnel visibly securing our site - we didn't waste any time getting things loaded up and returning back to base pronto.
Anyway... as bad as Honduras was, Guatemala was 1000 times worse.
Suffice to say - military personnel know better than anyone the importance of not causing problems in a host country. Even if the government of that country is alleged to be "pro" western. Corruption and poverty generally aren't mutually exclusive... they go hand and hand most of the time.