KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 11 (Reuters) - Western forces shot dead 16 civilians including nine children in southern Kandahar province on Sunday, Afghan officials said, in a rampage that witnesses said was carried out by American soldiers who were laughing and appeared drunk.
One Afghan father who said his children were killed in the shooting spree
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There really need to be better psych screenings for the military.
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At least, I don't recall a psych screening at MEPS. The most I got was security clearance interviews.
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This is a really common mindset, the belief that people with authority will never abuse it. Most people in the military do play by the rules, and they don't want to believe that their comrades would ever do anything so hideously wrong ( ... )
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And the people who still seem to think the military as a whole is a paragon of virtue in the world is full of shit. Yes, there are plenty of awesome soldiers but there are way too many who do horrible acts like this.
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I spent 20 years in the military and one of my most vivid memories is of doing door guard during an exercise where a young man came up to the door and pointed a rifle at me. *He* thought it was a great joke, but I had been taught gun safety as a child and will *ALWAYS* take a gun pointed at me seriously. When I went to CCQ to report the incident, they looked at me like, "What's your problem?"
These kids are handed deadly weapons without anyone ever checking to see if they can be trusted with them. Then something like this happens and the military is surprised. The surprising thing is that it doesn't happen even more frequently. (Or maybe it does, but it just doesn't get the publicity that this one did.)
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We had a Drill Sergeant in AIT who made a kid PT until he dropped because he forgot range safety and accidentally pointed his muzzle toward the DS. I had muzzle awareness and weapon safety drilled into my head so hard over the course of basic training that I could give lessons on it in my sleep. I cannot believe anybody in charge of troops would shrug off an incident like that, holy fuck that is unacceptable.
These kids are handed deadly weapons without anyone ever checking to see if they can be trusted with them.
This so hard oh my fucking GOD.
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We should never have been there in the first place, we need to disengage and get the hell out.
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