Responsibility and accountability is a big part of being in the military.

One thing I've always liked about the military is there's a certain amount of pragmatism.

We're so used to using military terminology in civilian speech that we forget those terms might mean something very specific.

The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went.

I like the ethos of the military and the idea of joining an institution in which, at the very least, everyone who signs up believes in something.

There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the military. My father was in the Peace Corps.