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Originally Posted by Gatorade Frost
Because 9/11 applies exactly to this situation.
If your job is to serve and protect, and to do that, you may have to shoot and kill another human being and you can't handle that, you shouldn't be doing that job in the first place. If you are doing that job, you could freeze up in the moment that decides whether a whole plane full of people lives or dies and that's not a risk worth taking with some one who isn't completely mentally able to do their job.
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I think the point being made is that you can train and train and then train some more... but until you actually kill someone, or witness bodies falling like sacks of wet cement, etc. you really don't know how you will react.
I don't care who you are or how "badass" you might think you are... you will react how you will react and all that training can do is give you some tools to help cope with your reactions.