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The headline du jour comes from KSFY:
There's that old saw about how "military intelligence" is an oxymoron; is KSFY saying the same thing about military sanity?
Confidence Con coming to Sioux Falls?
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Who says we need a new convention center to bring in the good stuff!
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The soldiers I have talked to that have been deployed to either Iraq or Afghanistan have had varying degrees of depression. I have never met one who had outright PTSD (although, just talking with a person is probably not enough to diagnose it). Some of them have had buddies die, or squad leaders die. For some of those young soldiers, it was the first time anyone close to them had died, and it wasn't some octagenarian relative, it was someone close to their own age, further intensifying the sense of their own mortality.
ReplyDeleteCoupled with the fact that the people coming into the Army can be and have been deployed immediatedly after Basic Training and AIT, and that there isn't as much if any pyschological screening when a person does join the Army...it does not suprise me that we are having these issues.
I do not want to die. Sometimes I am worried what it will do to me if I had to kill another person. Not that I am a "pansy" or a conscientious objector. But can anyone stare accross the abyss and see what kind of person they will be if they have to kill someone? Thankfully my job will not have me in many situations where I will ever shoot my weapon.
And of course, ther is the "funny" question "Who would join the Army during a War?"
Either a brave person, crazy person, or desperate person....
Here's hoping you never have to cross that abyss, Joe. May the Army keep your intelligence safe and sequestered in an undisclosed location spying on bad guys from well out of rifle range.
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