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Warfare
Even though Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is a book about a war hero, the actual warfare we see is brief and fleeting. We catch only vague glimpses of Billy's experiences in flashbacks to a battle at the Al-Ansakar Canal, and the descriptions of the Fox footage that made the Bravos all famous is brief. It's like war via Snapchat: quick snippets of random violence that interrupt Billy's days and draw him away from reality all too often. Because despite being a part of the world's greatest military machine, Billy can't get over the surprising randomness that pervades his whole experience of war.
Putting your feet one in front of the other when sitting in the Humvee could be the difference between saving your leg and losing both legs.
It doesn't matter how you hold your feet when you sit down: there's no way to know what will happen in war, and it's useless to think you have control over any aspect of it.
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