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Originally posted by Canslli
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So, when are these people going to realize that if they don't want to fight, if they step out of the army, these kinds os atrocities will end.
Originally posted by Solomons
reply to post by poedxsoldiervet
The Saudi's and ISI were responsible for 9/11. Have you seen the hundreds of hours of footage of Osama admitting he was involved in 9/11 by any chance?
Originally posted by cantsee4looking
reply to post by rainfall
you americans have a lot to answer to.....why have you not done anything about this crime.............it is appauling
*very easy to instigate outrage with a one-sided, shocking, disgusting or horrific you-tube video.*
Good point Skadi. A point taken too. Stated well.
During World War II, US Army Brig. Gen. S. L. A. Marshall had a team of researchers study what soldiers did in battle. For the first time in history, they asked individual soldiers what they did in battle. They discovered that only 15 to 20 percent of the individual riflemen could bring themselves to fire at an exposed enemy soldier.
That is the reality of the battlefield. Only a small percentage of soldiers are able and willing to participate. Men are willing to die, they are willing to sacrifice themselves for their nation; but they are not willing to kill. It is a phenomenal insight into human nature; but when the military became aware of that, they systematically went about the process of trying to fix this "problem." From the military perspective, a 15 percent firing rate among riflemen is like a 15 percent literacy rate among librarians. And fix it the military did. By the Korean War, around 55 percent of the soldiers were willing to fire to kill. And by Vietnam, the rate rose to over 90 percent.
Originally posted by cantsee4looking
reply to post by poedxsoldiervet
typical soldier cant read where im from..jeeeeez.......bet you have had all your vaccinations eh?