Trenchmacs are supposed to have started in the trenches, but this one at any rate has got out and marched a long long way. Do you think it will lead Julie back there? How many people, I wonder, have been seduced into signing up by the commanding thrill of the uniform?

I know all of us are supposed to fall for the man in uniform, but it's the thrill of wearing it I'm talking about.

Lt. Jordan O'Niel had got this bad I guess in G.I Jane. There were other nice things as well, like having her wrists tied so tightly with that wonderful thin nylon cord, and being made to do lots and lots of pressups and squats etc etc., and being shouted at and punished and ... but still the main thing for her seems to have been the marching about in that immaculate shirt and tie and skirt and jacket. Cf Private Benjamin who got to wear a rubberised cape, but who missed out pretty spectacularly on the impeccable tailoring bit.

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