Elements that surround individual military professionals include ethos, culture, and meaning. Factors internal to military professionals center on identity, which the outside elements largely shape. Each Service fosters a distinct identity even though those identities must allow cooperation with other Services and agencies. Since the overall identity of Servicemembers drives their sense of what they must do, leaders and educators must carefully consider how they craft and transmit organizational thinking toward the end of defining what those who wear the uniform are about. Yet transmitting belief and culture is comparatively easy. Determining how belief and culture are interpreted, internalized, and applied is far more challenging.