So when they spoke on the sidelines of the dinner, they had the chance to exchange war stories.
But his love of war stories, rifles, and shotguns never extended into the realm of automatic or semi-automatic weapons.
There, he encouraged these young soldiers to tell him and their war stories.
Any finance professional who survived three economic downturns will have war stories of going from novice to expert to remain relevant.
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In this way, guildies can share their war stories while waiting for their home world to open up and let them in.
Perhaps there is even a community of married business partners in a similar field with whom a couple can share war stories and compare notes and ideas.
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The results feel like a boozily nostalgic evening spent in a pub, watching a tableful of retired reporters knock back Jameson after Jameson as they swap war stories.
True war stories do not generalize.
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After all the fascinating war stories were related by our fine panel, Bob Litterman, Leslie Rahl, Eli Ayache and Bruno Dupire , there was this almost embarassed admission that quant solutions to protect against risk and the dangers of volatility may not necessarily protect against the exaggerated level of confidence that existed in Wall Street in 2007, prior to the 2008 meltdown.
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Observers have attributed this to "war fatigue" suffered by audiences due to an abundance of war-stories in the media.
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In the 1930s Nazi barbarism was discounted because of the shocking World War I stories about the behavior of German troops: After all, weren't those tales of German atrocities against the Belgians wildly exaggerated?
The IOWA, which served in World War II, the Korean War and the Cold War, is 14 stories high, 887 feet long and weighs more than 45, 000 tons.
One of the stories about war that has always haunted me is that of World War I soldiers fighting and dying as the clock ticked down to the war's end.
Berman has covered stories ranging from the war in Iraq to the best way to catch catfish barehanded.
In a war that has produced many extraordinary stories, Mr Chapman's was among the oddest.
Twenty years after the war ended, the passion and the stories are still poignant.
Not a great movie, but one of the great, unknown (in this country) stories of the Second World War.
Jeremy Bowen travelled the region piecing together personal stories, hearing allegations of war crimes and the targeting of civilians.
"Just like War of the Worlds, Gil's stories are scary but they are make-believe, " she said.
In Glasgow, school pupils have been uncovering the human stories behind the names on the city's war memorials.
For the last five years, his articles and stories have provided Americans with comprehensive coverage of the war.
In 2007, he founded The Tiziano Project, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit which teaches communities in struggling or war-torn countries how to report and photograph their own stories.
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There will always be a place in zombie lore for the postapocalyptic visions of "The Walking Dead, " but we also need stories like Max Brooks's novel "World War Z" (the source for this summer's movie), in which the adaptability, ingenuity and creativity of human beings are put on full display.
The tech industry is rife with stories of platforms that had superior technology but lost the war in the field.
The exhibition, which will open at the airbase on 28 March, tells the stories of people who lived and worked there during World War II and the Cold War.
Mr Snow has covered a variety of momentous stories around the globe for ITN, including the Falklands reports war, the American Shuttle disaster and President Nelson Mandela's release from prison.
Rohid said that the stories told to him by his parents of life under the Taliban in the war-torn country had motivated him in his studies.
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