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[benchilada]

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[wulfsbane]

Is calling the military douchebaggish considered a douchebaggish comment?

[neogrammarian]

He's not alone- my brother was diagnosed w/BPD in his 1st tour, w/suicidal/homicidal symptoms as well. They denied him a Section 8 (medical discharge), and he's back in Iraq now on his 2nd tour.

I love my brother- but he's not a man I want holding a gun, esp not in a warzone- when he's compos mentis, he's fine. But he isn't always.

[benchilada]

A) Nice icon,
b) I wouldn't trust me in a strange and terrifying place with a gun. I mean, pacifism aside, I have BPD and OCD and fucking Tourette's.

These are not things that you want in a soldier.

But I wonder if they'd take me right now...

[neogrammarian]

A) Thanks, I really liked that issue- some family resonance there.
B) Yeah, I think they would take you right now- it's a pretty scary scenario in the military these days.

[nykki]

I have PTSD. Think they'll give me a gun? I'll shoot people... the enemy... nope, people.

[pure_doxyk]

"Isolated incident" seems to be code for "shit, we got caught."

I just wanted to hop in and say that that line is brilliant.

I have nothing else to say. Total agreement is boring. ;)

[benchilada]

Thanks for that. :)

[neogrammarian]

Other than just needing warm bodies, would you mind sharing your thoughts, as a Marine, as to why they do this? As a civilian, it just seems to fly in the face of order, morale, all the things that need to be maintained in that special delicate area- a warzone.

[neogrammarian]

Well, at least I guessed right?

Not much of a silver lining there.

Thanks for the corroboration.

[benchilada]

Especially when our current administration insists on spreading our military as thinly as it has been doing.

Our armed forces were not designed to be in as many places in as high of volumes as they are right now, and soldiers haven't been trained to deal with the stress of three, four tours in a nightmareland.