Despite the professionalism of Marines, it would be distracting and potentially traumatizing to be forced to be naked in front of the opposite sex, particularly when your body has been ravaged by lack of hygiene.

WSJ: Ryan Smith: The Reality That Awaits Women in Combat

Its characters are so thoroughly reduced to the basics of life that even sex feels like a luxury a far echo of civilization, like hygiene or books.

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