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Originally Posted by ring
Oh yeah? I'm an old Airforce brat meself. (Cuban Missile crisis era.)
My Father spared me no rod,
telling me the worst of his induction/brainwashing.
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Your first sentence explains everything.
And the little mirror pic is cute. America was a different place during that time, and so too were the training tactics. America itself was "brainwashed" into being scared constantly of "The Reds," or communists, or anything that wasn't directly connected to the US.
Now, if you had read my post, you'd see I was talking about that individual who served in Iraq, and myself, who also served in Iraq. I said that stuff wasn't a part of HIS training, OR MINE. Never did I say that it was never a part of ANYONE'S TRAINING.
Hell, I even mentioned the way things were "back in the day." Did you read my post at all, or just skim over it?
EDIT: I see you changed the pic. If you knew anything about Abu Ghraib, you'd know the people there weren't "trained" to do any of that, and were punished severely for doing what they did. A complete failure of their command structure and poor scheduling led to what happened, AND if you did some research into a little Stanford experiment which studied those exact circumstances (way back before the US even entered Iraq), you'd know that no one has to be trained to act in such a way, people do it all on their own.