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Post #313109

Author
Zion
Parent topic
Soldier Shoots Dog With Smoke Round
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Date created
10-Mar-2008, 10:26 PM
You have to have a certain mental state in order to be a marine or a soldier. Most of us "normal" people would never be able to handle their day to day life. It's not just what they're exposed to in Iraq and the constant death they experience, but also about the way they live and how they're treated by their superiors. Hell, I was in the Air Force for 4 years and I couldn't understand half the stuff those guys did. The marines I hung around with would beat each other up just for fun, all of them laughing as they did so. That's just the way they are, and no amount of funding is going to change them. The fact is, the training they have to go through in order to do the things they have to do is unique and only certain types of individuals can get through it.

Not that I'm defending in any way what happened in these instances, but no amount of psychotherapy or revocation of internet privileges is going to stop them. The only thing that will is harsher disciplinary action handed out to the offenders, and making sure all soldiers know about it. I seriously doubt that the people who shot these videos are the ones who uploaded them to the internet. What most likely happened in both cases was the video was emailed to some friends, someone took offense, and as a result made it public. I can't count the number of times I received pictures and video emailed from friends serving in Iraq or Afghanistan or forwarded from someone else.