The heads of private equity giants KKR ( KKR), Apollo Global Management ( APO) and The Blackstone Group ( BX) all earned their stripes and built buyout skills working in the investment banking units of Wall Street mainstays before breaking out to master the art of the buyout.

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According to this worshipful view, GE's units are great at working together, with their managers swapping ideas at quarterly meetings.

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But putting that aside, Sony's core message was that its various units were finally fully sharing their technologies rather than working in silos.

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Just in the last few weeks, U.S. military teams that have been working directly with specific Iraqi national police units have actually moved into their bases.

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"There's a hands-on demonstration that they can use of all the equipment, hand tools, backpack, their fire shelter, deploying it, using drip torches, pumps, working with other units on a fire line, " Sammon said, of the training Veseth received.

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They are the servicemen that I met at a VA hospital in the Bronx, working so hard to get back on their feet, and in some cases to get back to their units.

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