This lecture is for mental health providers who want to develop a better understanding about how military culture can impact patients’ experience of their symptoms and of mental health treatment. It provides an overview of military culture and cultural competence, with a focus on the short comings of a sociologic approach to cultural competence. The benefits of a patient centered approach utilizing the cultural formation interview (CFI) from the DSM-5-TR is then introduced, along with an overview of efforts to develop a military version of the CFI, to include it’s recent inclusion in the DSM-5-TR. Participants are then challenged with clinical cases involving military patients that benefit from utilization of the military version of the CFI.