The Military's Got to Show a Purpose to It

When a soldier's wounded on the battlefield and they are evacuated to a a first aid station, as soon as they're able, the first thing they ask about is their comrades. And so what the military does is, when you first come in, they cut your hair, they change your clothes, they make you go by a rank and a name. They change a lot of overt behaviors, because they know that you force behaviour change. And attitudinal change comes after that. You start to believe cognitive dissonance kicks in. And so you start to think of yourself as a soldier. The hardest things for some one leavein the military is to stop self identifying as a soldiers. It's