[Honestly, there isn't really much of an after the military for much of his life. Not until recently, with getting out from under the Russians, and even then he'd been in contact with Fury until Steve's death. He's a soldier in his own way.

So he sticks with the point about Europe, because that's easier to parse. There is a brief look there, like it's something he doesn't usually share.]

Nah, I didn't go to Europe until I was sixteen. I was- something of a troublemaker back in those days, but the Major handed my file over to General Phillips, recommended me for a special assignment just before my birthday: training in England with the SAS. Two months solid. Then they shipped me back, and turned out I was to be the partner of the US Army's new secret weapon.

[The smile he flashes her make the name that follows obvious, the way his eyes briefly flick down to the shield.]

Captain America.