Members of the military, whether on duty or off, combatants or noncombatants, active-duty or retired, share an identity fashioned by an always distinctive, frequently compelling, and occasionally bizarre military culture. Military culture embraces not only the official traditions of military life (the formal parades, heroes芒鈧劉 welcomes, military dress, deference to rank) but also their unofficial ostensibly transgressive counterparts: parodies, p