Throughout the history of the United States (U.S.), there have been service members who, upon leaving the service, have spoken out against U.S. involvement in wars. The current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, and their increasing unpopularity, have contributed to this trend. Recently veterans have begun to come forward in larger numbers to speak out against the current wars and have self-identified as members of peace movements. The purpose of this research project was to explore veterans' understandings of the peace movement and their involvement in veterans' peace movement organizations. This study hoped to answer the following questions: 1) How does a veteran understand the current peace movement? 2) Which, if any, parts of the current peace movement does a veteran find to be in line with his or her own values? 3) What do veterans feel it means to be a veteran for peace? 4) How do veterans come to identify with the current peace movement? 5) How do veterans take a stand against the current peace movement? 6) What do veterans feel is gained by involvement in the peace movement? The study was conducted using a qualitative approach, and 27 interviews were conducted either face-to-face or over the phone with U.S. veterans from across the country, who have served since the Vietnam War. Veterans who were no longer serving in an active duty capacity were selected via a snowball sample of the researcher's circle of military colleagues and friends around the U.S. The identity of "veteran in the peace movement" is a complicated one, and the result of a long, complex, series of lived experiences. This study let participants describe the process of identity acquisition, or rejection in their own words in order to create a realistic and honest narrative about the emotional and mental processes, and life events that trigger or influence these, that influenced identification or not with a veterans' peace movement organization.

[pt] A questão básica da pesquisa é desvelar como se processa hoje a socialização dos cadetes da AMAN e como a farda adere à alma desses militares. Diante desse desafio, cadetes, professores e instrutores da AMAN foram entrevistados, questionários de opinião foram aplicados e analisados, juntamente com os documentos oficiais da AMAN e do Exército. O texto fornece ricos dados, relatos e informações que evidenciam as mudanças ocorridas no processo de socialização dos cadetes nos últimos trinta anos, com destaque para as influências advindas de fora da instituição, o mapeamento do perfil social atual dos cadetes, o papel dos professores e instrutores, a rotina dos cadetes, suas linguagens e vivências na caserna. Por fim, o processo de socialização praticado na AMAN é brevemente comparado com o experimentado na Academia Real Militar de Sandhurst, que forma os cadetes para o Exército do Reino Unido. / [en] The basic question of the research is to reveal how the socialization of the cadets of AMAN is processed today and how the uniform adheres to the soul of these military personnel. Faced with this challenge, AMAN cadets, teachers and instructors were interviewed, opinion questionnaires were applied and analyzed, along with official AMAN and Army documents. The text provides rich data, reports and information that show the changes that have occurred in the cadet socialization process in the last thirty years, with emphasis on influences from outside the institution, the mapping of cadets current social profile, the role of teachers and instructors, the routine of the cadets, their languages and experiences in the barracks. Finally, the process of socialization practiced in AMAN is briefly compared to that experienced at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, which forms the cadets for the UK Army.