9 Wall Street bankers reveal how their time in the US military helped prepare them for careers in finance

There are enemy combatants for as far as the eye can see and complex decisions to be made, the ramifications of which must be carefully calculated lest comrades suffer the most dire of consequences.

The battlefield sounds an awful lot like Wall Street, come to think of it.

This Veterans Day, Business Insider commemorates US soldiers who served their country, and then went on to successful careers in finance.

Whether they're experienced Navy SEALs, fighter pilots or Army Rangers, there are countless US military veterans who say that the lessons they learned on and off the battlefield are applicable to everyday life off of it.

Business Insider rallied the (former) troops from the US Navy, the Army and the Marines, and this is what they said about their time in the military, and how it prepared them for life on Wall Street.