John Cena walked into a room full of wounded sailors and Marines, introduced himself, then burst out laughing.

"You're very brave," the hulking professional wrestler said, gesturing toward a 23-year-old Marine corporal.

Cena wasn't talking about the young man's back-to-back combat deployments to Afghanistan or his yearlong recovery after surviving a roadside explosion in Helmand Province.

He was talking about the belly-shirt and short-shorts.

"Do you like it?" Cpl. Josh Williams asked.