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Acknowledgments and Editors’ Note xv Section three of this anthology will highlight the possibility of training an individual to de-escalate his or her nervous system response as a perfor- mance metric and discuss methods for rolling such programs out both in the active duty component and the veteran space. This anthology’s primary con- clusion is a call to action. We can use biofeedback testing to make resilience a performance metric for the active duty component. It turns self-awareness and resilience into standards and motivates learning, training, practice, and performance in our community’s culture. Our future work involves delivery and evaluation of a theoretically based, validated training curriculum to bul- letproof the brain. The future is exciting from clinical, training, and prevention perspectives, and these recommendations offer tremendous promise for tomorrow’s mili- tary personnel. Training to embrace a mental temerity training regimen can make them better at their jobs and more resilient in their lives, both during and after their service to our country. Kate Hendricks Thomas and David L. Albright