I got some flack here a couple of years ago when I said if these 150,000 troops were back home they'd probably still die at the same rate they are in Iraq via homicide, suicide and automobile deaths.
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That is a little lame. However, I am sure that there is MANY incidents worse than this occuring constantly and I think Americans should see them as often as possible. Somehow with their yellow ribbons and "support our troops" bumper stickers Americans somehow mentally turn our soldiers into some kind of virginal little saints spreading democracy throughout the world. If the Army is anything like it was when I was in then what we have is a bunch of testosteroned up trained killers roaming locked and loaded among a civilian populace. I'm glad I was never in that situation and had to face my own behaviour or that of my fellow soldiers. In the 2 years I was in we had 3 murders in our company, my first 2 roomates wound up in prison one for armed robbery and another for assault, my first section chief went to prison for 1st Degree murder the first week I got there. A soldier in the room beneath mine was beaten unrecognizable by 3 black guys with an iron. I nearly killed a guy hip tossing him during a fight in a bar parking lot. It went on and on and on. So you people that have never been in a combat unit who seem to think our nice little soldiers are over there acting like little gentlemen need to wake up. The little fuckers need to be kept on a leash and segregated from civilians until they go home to be around people they will not let them see at their worst like that.
Army is not what you see on TV. Many people are bamboozled into thinking that being in the armed forces is about defending democracy, fighting for noble causes ect ect. It could not be farther from the truth. Sad but true.