The idea of uniformity is not a bad thing. It's an attractive, we literally wear a uniform that attribute is a positive in so many ways for those of us interested in the military. The more you look like the person next to you, the better you are. When you're in the military, you're causing depths of misery and pain, virtually unknown in all the other walks of life. In the writing of this book, I also owe a great debt of data to gratitude to all those who gave generously of their time to reading and discussing earlier drafts.