American flags wave from homes, cars, and highway overpasses. Operation Anaconda rocked, even if Osama Bin Laden isn't yet caught (or his body yet recovered). Such movies as Saving Private Ryan, Pearl Harbor, and We Were Soldiers let us relive history with the men and women who made it. And since U.S. forces were deployed to Afghanistan in November 2001, along with troops from allied countries, the military has been much in the forefront of our collective consciousness.
The armed forces of the United States have long been known as an exemplary model of leadership, teamw