Avery Truffleman

And if you're listening to this and you are a soldier or a veteran, I can just feel you rolling your eyes at this classically clueless civilian.

I know.

We live in this moment in history where there's a gaping rift between this country's military and this country's civilians.

There's even a term for it, like college students take courses on the military-civilian divide.

And it's gotten to the very practical nightmare where, as I write this, President Trump is ordering Marines and the National Guard into American cities to detain American citizens.

We've been pitted against each other.

And yet...

Oddly enough, American soldiers and American civilians have never been more intertwined than we both are now in our clothing.

We all wear the same things.

Our styles...

It's so embarrassing to say because I really did come in guns blazing, you know, like fuck the military.

But honestly, not that I'm like, I'm enlisting.

I love the military now.

And multiple soldiers and veterans were like, you caught me rolling my eyes as I was rolling my eyes.

I'm like, yeah, I know.

But I think I've just realized how much more complicated it actually was.

Because I think I was also like, yeah, they're the military industrial complex.

They're these dark machinations behind the scenes.

But once I actually...

met a lot of soldiers and talked to them and met a lot of veterans and talked to them and also met a lot of people who work in the industry, like making these clothes for the outdoors and for the Department of Defense.