In much of the discourse on stress, distress and resilience (SDR) in the US Marine Corps there is the recognition that the social somehow plays a role in the development of stress and distress. However, these arguments are most often grounded in the same fundamental and largely unchallenged assumption that stress and distress are essentially the result of brain functions. Even in the literature that focuses on the social implications of combat, stress and distress are most often conceived as traumatic damage to the psychology and mind of soldiers, and not as personal and socio-cultural...