I never asked, but it seems to me now that there were a lot of em like me, pushing the envelopes of their own lives the way the test pilots were pushing the envelopes with their aerospacecraft.

• 我从没问过，但在我看来现在有许多士兵和我一样，不断增加自己生活中承受的极限，就如同试飞员们用他们的飞机去挑战极限那样。