Yep. Most of the long-term members and many of the current and past staff came over from that site for the very reason you outlined above. This site is SUPER tolerant of conflicting opinions, even the ones that don't emanate from the site oligarchy. Here, there's toleration for civilians, conventional forces and *gasp* even support types. That's what makes this site attractive and, to me, unique in the field.
You forgot the tolerance shown for ex-pats and furriners too... we don't even hate the furriners, ex-pats, well, we kinda hate them a little.