Reply #15: Some people come out of that experience differently than you did [View All]

Just as there are some people who find that they like the power that comes with a gun -- witness the military personnel that gleefully took pictures of the people they tortured at Abu Graib or who have raped and murdered the civilian non-comms they were supposed to be protecting -- there are some people who are so revulsed at what they are ordered to do that they would do anything than face it again. Would you rather have an option for such people to leave the service, or would you rather have them go AWOL, commit suicide (like these people or possibly be responsible for providing cover fire to keep you alive?

And I never said that you specifically did not know that experience; I was speaking generally.