“There’s strong, and then there’s Army strong.” So goes the Army’s commercial. It shows what you might expect: Soldiers in various garb in various situations. They climb walls, crawl through foliage, jump from helicopters, and so on.

But in the dozen or so scenes of soldiers in action, not one — not one — showed a desert. There were jungles and fields of grain and prairies, but never a desert scene.

Funny, huh?