Men in uniforms - there's nothing wrong with that! >_>
If they had known that Uncle Sam would be in the country, they may have phoned him and asked him if he would be willing to stand up there with Ryan. Well, maybe not. They would have called Vicky and asked her.
"He doesn't break that easily." Well, Jamie didn't think that US Military was that fragile. He shouldn't be, but then they had never tried something like this with him before...