have no clue about the camaraderie among these people and whaqt they would and would not do

...insensitive hosts - why don't Bill, Sean, Brian and this woman receive reciprocal treatment?

leveling an accusation of a war crime mentality among U.S. troops. She is un-American!

Right-Wing.

I was a bit of an Army misfit; I liked poetry, Shakespeare, classical music, drinking wine (instead of cheap beer or rot-gut liquor, like a lot of other tankers), and I butted heads with a lot of guys for not embracing their "kill all fags and brown people" maxim.

I got a lot of "If we're ever in combat, you're the first person I'll shoot!" from guys who were supposed to be my comrades-in-arms.

Well, we never made it into combat, but when our base in Saudi Arabia was scudded in February, 1991, those same guys were all saying: "Oh shit, man! This is real! We could all fucking DIE!"

The prospect of actual killing can change one's attitude towards it.

Did you have a plan for dealing with those threats if you ever face combat? That would have totally cured me of any feelings of duty or obligation to America. No way is a military full of sociopaths going to pass mustard with me. I don't care what I signed. I'm outta there!

It was all just a lot of hot air from hot-headed kids who thought making insanely aggressive threats made them all that.

We did a lot of training exercises in the Saudi desert after arriving from Germany, and we concentrated on getting trained up. When not actively training, we were either bored out of our skulls, or marveling at the exotic, beautiful Arabian desert.

Anyway, I was a tank crewman. Killing one of your own under cover of combat would be a bone-stupid thing to do. And even a 'dumb-ass tanker' wouldn't be stupid enough to kill the guy who loads the tank gun, cleans and maintains the machine guns, and operates the radio and pre-sets the frequencies. When facing the prospect of combat, teamwork trumps schoolyard taunting every time.

how badly she would behave if she was in the place of any of these soldiers.

pressure packed into her comments I was bound to miss something, and, yes, there's that equally unpleasant angle, as well.

The armed service community should demand a retraction and apology.

that military personnel are lawless and undisciplined, two traits at the heart of her comment.

FOX is the channel patriots watch, don'cha know?