Firemen don't talk about whether a burning warehouse is worth saving.

The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one another’s lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The willingness to die for another person is a form of love that even religions fail to inspire, and the experience of it changes a person profoundly.

An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words

Often people who live through the trauma are nostalgic when it's over. When I went back to Bosnia 20 years after the brutal civil war, even people who had been badly wounded told me they missed those times. They were missing their more courageous selves.

I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military.

The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.

A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.