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just as an aside: ALL who serve in the U.S. military are subject to the UCMJ and wage war according to the LOAC. there are standards in something as extreme as combat by which our military men and women are judged. in many ways... servicemen and women are held to a higher moral standard than the regular citizenry and sometimes get hit twice as hard (for offenses that violate both military and civil law, those punishments are administered independently... meaning they often get hit twice for a single offense.) when they go awry.
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
~ Winston Churchill
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