re: Soldiers describing killing for the first time

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osh’s take is fricking hilarious

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Yeah if I got to be in a fox hole I will take that guy

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I'd prefer a seasoned vet's opinion

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Tour de Europe and Asia for most

many of pussy crushed on tdy

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What’s wrong with this? We’re made to kill. To be warriors.

Warriors made this world. They spread their seeds. They raped and murdered their way across the globe and we have them to thank for the present day.

And one day, they’ll be a lot more killing that needs to happen. So you’d better prepare to either be the predator or be the prey.

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You're a liiiitle unhinged, man. Ijs.

Not on active duty. Only as a dependent (lived in Europe when I was in high school).

Wife deployed once, but it wasn't to a high danger area, thankfully.

I’ve read and listened to and consumed a LOT of history.

These times we live in...they are soft. History is full of tales of hard, hard men. The violence that was day to day...the combat...melee, up close and personal...

And then you realize that we haven’t changed all that much. Physically, men are the same. We’re the same as our ancestors, the conquerors, the builders, the warriors. It’s the world that has changed. Instead of being born into a world of scraping and fighting for a piece of the pie, we’re living in the lap of relative luxury, where even the “poor” live better than the kings of old.

And like all the empires of old that have grown fat and complacent, that have become bloated and degenerate and filled with degradation...we’re headed for a fall.
It doesn’t take a prognosticator to see the writing on the wall. Look at the history of empires, then look at us.



So I say why is it wrong for a warrior to have enjoyed his time as a warrior?

Would you fault a builder if he said “I miss building”?

Would you call a farmer unhinged if he said “I miss farming”?

Enjoy these halcyon days. Because the future, sooner or later, contains the fall of another empire.
And when it does, it will end in the same spectacular blaze they all do, with fire and blood and steel.

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Josh sounds like a psycho.

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And that's why it's difficult to discuss these kind of things with Joe Blow. Hard to talk about insane situations and sound sane while you do it.

This is why I don’t talk to anyone about it. I’ve spent 65 months of my military career in either Iraq or Afghanistan. I have some completely messed up stories and I have some views and ideologies that the non military man will understand

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but I don't remember a single case of American troops getting into a fire fight

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Now, I'm not 100% sure, but I want to say I remember reading a book, about special forces or whatnot, and it made reference to a firefight while a unit was off duty or something to that affect. They were having some downtime and were ambushed and out-gunned. Someone of high importance or someone who was looked up to by all, was killed

My great uncle was on a bomber crew and had to bail over Belgium. Killed one man while hiding out with the resistance. He was hiding out in a barn when a patrol came through the town and searched the place.

He said the only thing he regrets is still being able to hear the flashlight the man dropped thud down the wooden stairs when he dreams.

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And that's why it's difficult to discuss these kind of things with Joe Blow. Hard to talk about insane situations and sound sane while you do it.

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Yeah, people that judge how others cope with that stress are why many don't want to talk about it