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I have a great deal of respect for anyone in the military and even more for the elite-type units, Marines included. As was said in A Few Good Men, someone has to walk that wall. And whoever that is needs to have the absolute best training possible, which includes creating a certain kind of mindset.
I missed the Vietnam draft by about a year. I'm not sure what I would have been like had I gone. I say that because I know I would have had to create something very different inside myself to do the things needed and to survive.
I had a buddy who knew he was going to be drafted, so he enlisted in the marines thinking he wanted the best possible training if he had to go. After basic, he signed up for jungle warefare and survival (or something like that) so he would be even more prepared. That would be me: turn me into a killing machine if that's what I have to be. I would just worry some about how to turn that off later. It's a tough catch-22.
War sucks. There is nothing glorious about it. I salute every man and woman that has had to deal with it.
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