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““Uniforms standardize the way we recognize military members who outrank us, so we can avoid ass chewings for failure to refer to someone as sergeant or sir or your majesty, or for failure to salute them.””

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“I’ve never actually seen the military used to any higher moral purpose. There is always the bottom line, somewhere, somehow.”

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