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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
kriswest, I'm the son of a USMA '63 grad and the cousin of USMA '85, '91 and '96 grads (as well as USNA '88, but he's the black sheep). For those of us who didn't go to West Point, family reunions are boring affairs with all the military talk. So you and I were probably raised in very similar households. My father's class was back at West Point 2 years ago to do Beast Week with the plebes, and his comment was that it was different but definitely as challenging as when he did it.
As far as training to "understand and acclimate what they will confront", there's no training in the world that can prepare you killing another human being that you've never seen before (the psycology of it, not the mechanics, obviously) or watching your friends be killed. Your claim about PTSD is based on statistics that anyone with the most basic understanding of the history of the diagnosis would agree is misleading at best and most likely outright faulty.
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( i would insert a really happy smiley emoticon here but I have dialup and the download is really slow)Oh crap,,,, You are an officer brat,,, well uummm,,,, yea,, there is a difference. I am a noncom brat with relations in officer territory. Hmmm, don't know if many here understand that difference. Training is different for officers then it is for the grunts. You do know this right? And Ohhhhhh Godds yes it is boring when they get together. Did they force you all to watch the documentaries of old wars over and over and over again????
There is training to acclimate to killing and watching your friends die,, correction, there was. It is no longer allowed. That happened well over two decades back almost 30 years back, it slowly started changing after Vietnam. I am 47 years old tomorrow,, I have observed the change.