Your daughter asked direct questions and he gave coy answers.

I'm an honorably discharged veteran and I always advise people not to contract into voluntary servitude.

This interview needed someone like me to explain "the other side of the coin" to the audience. This guest failed to give you full informative disclosure.

He's still struggling cognitive dissonance about what he initially believed military service to be as a hopeful recruit and what he won't now candidly admit it really is. 

 I don’t speak for them, of course, but I will say that last night the same question was put to the panel, and most were immediate and unequivocal in their responses: don’t.