User blog comment:N7EagleEye/New Mass Effect 4 Details/@comment-2186773-20121021211931

Not being a soldier doesn't mean no combat training at all, you could be a freelancer, member of a gang, bounty hunter, hell even a Justicar, just anything that doesn't really have the same type of high level army intel and equipment Shepard had, it's not like they're gonna make you a Volus Merchant.