Oh, yes. In Liana's case, it was a chance to be so busy for the next four years that she wouldn't have time to think about all she'd left behind at home. It gave her purpose and provided her with a career that was hers and hers alone, the first real thing of tangible value she'd ever possessed.
HA! OMG, though, Scotty has that exact same idea when he's processing into Basic. Paraphrased: "The downside is I won't have time to think. The upside is also that I won't have time to think." And then the later (wildly novel to him) thought: Basic was a world apart from Aberdeen, a world where he had a purpose that wasn't just his own survival -- that was Starfleet's job to worry about -- and just had to do what he was told, learn what he was told, and know that his squad mates would watch his back while he slept because that was their duty, and that he had a duty to be rested to do the same for them. By the time that six months was over, he could sleep and had, just about anywhere. Crowded barracks to space station floors to foxholes.
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