Hi Dale, interesting insight of yours! thanks a bunch.
      As for countryman, I thought its meaning was that of "rustic" (even too naive), when I used the word.

     Indeed, "paisano" in Brazil is used in military circles to talk about non-military people.

     PP.

http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/countryman

Definition: Countryman
Countryman
Noun
1. A man from your own country.
2. A man who lives in the country and has country ways.
Portuguese
compatriota (compatriot, fellow countryman, kinsman, kinswoman), camponês (boor, chuff, cottager, farmer, landsman, peasant, rustic, ryot, yokel). (various references)