ELIZABETH CUSTER, wife of the famous general, wrote in her memoirs about a cultured, upper-class woman many years an army wife, who heard that a friend had married a military officer, and "for love." "Good heavens!" the woman replied, surprised by the explanation. "What else could she marry for?" (1) Certainly not for money, prestige, comfort, or convenience; any army woman would have scoffed at the notion that the soft life could be found on the isolated garrisons where most ...