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Any combat vets out there?
Today was quite a day for a lot of our guys here. Granted Afghanistan is not Iraq, we've still been hit with VBIEDs, RPGs and lost a few guys from our company. The longer I'm here (been in country for about 7 months now), the more I wonder how all of this will feel when I get home for good. Most of us have found our "fearlessness" and find humor in a lot of rather disturbing situations. When I sit down at the end of the day, though, and think about it, I can't imagine what it'll all seem like in retrospect after I'm safely back in the US. It seems pretty surreal even as it happens.
So, to those of you already having been in a combat zone, any thoughts? Are you able to forget at least some of it later on? I recently reenlisted for another 6 years, and imagine I'll likely get deployed at least once more. How have those of you with multiple Iraq/Afghanistan deployments felt?
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