What combat veteran doesn't feel by turns pride and exhilaration, disgust and anger?

Since it took a good many missions to properly achieve the look, a so-called 50-mission crush cap was considered a sign of a seasoned combat veteran.

And last night the players vowed to give more to injured combat veterans.

Other participants range from combat veterans to technology geeks, and a biologist expert on insect armour.

Written (and often ghostwritten) from the perspective of combat veterans, they appealed as much to audiences of action films as to readers of military histories or reportage.