This article addresses whether there is a "gap" between the attitudes and perspectives of military students (at the military academies and at colleges with Reserve Officer Training Corps [ROTC] detachments) and students at civilian colleges. It is a limited study in that only three sets of student attitudes were examined, which were those pertaining to American society and its culture, military professionalism, and civil-military relations. The authors conclude that there is no significant gap between the attitudes and perspectives of military students in precommissioning undergraduate education and graduating seniors in civilian institutions. Rather, they were struck overall by the relatively high degree of similarity in responses. They also found a remarkably similar understanding of military professionalism, but, unfortunately, serious misunderstandings about proper civilmilitary relations on the part of both groups of students. Recommendations are proposed to correct the deficiencies noted in precommissioning professional military education.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) understands that innovative product development is essential to addressing the unmet medical need of non-healing chronic wounds. Barriers to product development for non-healing chronic wounds may involve but are not limited to a dearth of biological models, challenges in drug delivery, challenges in clinical trial execution, and limited commercial viability. This perspective article discusses FDA's renewed focus on non-healing chronic wounds and outlines efforts to address identified barriers to product development for nonhealing chronic wounds. In collaboration with key wound healing stakeholders including academia, professional associations, patient groups, reimbursement organizations and industry, FDA intends to help advance product development for non-healing chronic wounds for the ultimate betterment of patients.

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