The United States military is among the elite fighting forces in human history. Fostering a great military starts with fostering great soldiers. Tanya Ivey-Bloom is a nurse practitioner at the Johns Hopkins Hospital but also the current Commander of the 336th Medical Detachment of the US Army Reserves in Fort Meade Maryland. We compare and contrast military and civilian medicine, leadership styles, and how the military embraces a mindful approach to training soldiers (and physicians). (Music Credit: Sunshine, Simon Jomphe Lepine.)