"In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama praised the teamwork of the United States armed forces: “They don’t obsess over their differences. They focus on the mission at hand. They work together.
"In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama praised the teamwork of the United States armed forces: 'They don’t obsess over their differences. They focus on the mission at hand. They work together.'
"You might assume that the military promotes teamwork by strictly authoritarian means – the chain of command. Not so. It implements specific measures to reduce racial and ethnic conflict. It builds solidarity by taking care of its own, relying on a far more egalitarian structure of pay and benefits than the civilian economy." ...