1 A LITTLE MORE THAN a decade ago, as a U. S. Army soldier in his mid-20s, Mills stood six feet, three inches tall and weighed 250 pounds. His biceps, he says, taped 23 inches. To achieve such a physique, he had to embody a definition of strength many young athletes would recognize. “Everything was all about how much can I lift, and how big can I get my muscles, and how strong can I be with respect to picking things up and putting them down,” he says.
Mills would more fully understand the inner aspects of strength under battlefield stress. On his second combat deployment, an
