This chapter observes the early signs of the process of Yugoslavia’s tragic destruction in the late 1980s and early 1990s through the loosening and dissolving of fixed ritualized and standardized forms of being and living in the Yugoslav People’s Army. The protective capacity of ritualized forms subsided, ethnic belonging became decisive for soldiers’ treatment and destiny, and prevailed over the uniform’s difference-erasing capacity. The institutional infrastructures that generated meanings and values that were foundations of Yugoslav socialism and enabled the relationship between the citizens and the state as one of coordination and sharing rather than of hegemony and hierarchy dissolved, rendering certain forms and possibilities for collectivity, agency, and political imagination problematic, illegitimate, and meaningless.