Depends on the individual and 1) How they approach the experience and 2) What they take away from the experience.

You're painting with a VERY broad brush in your statement.

I had a service industry job through high school and college. Does that meant that since I didn't get through college yet, I didn't have CS skills? A LOT of people I worked with weren't college graduates, yet they had customer service skills, isn't that amazing?

Again, you're generalizing and implying that A+B ALWAYS = C. Simply not the case.

Besides, there's PLENTY of mil guys that have NEVER had a CS job in their life as it relates to what we're discussing here, yet they could probably blow others away as far as people skills compared to others that have had it. You're either a good person or you're not, you either have the the capacity to do it or you don't.

But saying that college teaches that skill set simply isn't a valid statement.