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4. Four and five tours of duty...no wonder. Now they want to train soldiers to basically be heartless

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Tue Feb 5, 2013, 03:10 AM

Feb 2013

Just what we need. More heartless bastards in this country. Stupid war mongers want a forever war so they can keep killing the children of the poor and stealing the resources of other countries. . Their kids sure don't go. Stop the madness.

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U.S. Army To Build Soldier "Resilience" To Fight Suicides, Violence [View all] Purveyor Feb 2013 OP

Maybe the plans could include House of Roberts Feb 2013 #1

Pay-scale has nothing to do with it. Socal31 Feb 2013 #6

Pay may have something to do with it JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2013 #8

Could be a minor factor, but they made un-taxed combat money with nowhere to spend it. Socal31 Feb 2013 #10

Pray the PTSD Away BlueStreak Feb 2013 #2

Good. musical_soul Feb 2013 #3

Four and five tours of duty...no wonder. Now they want to train soldiers to basically be heartless judesedit Feb 2013 #4

It is worse than that. There are no free resources coming our way. Socal31 Feb 2013 #7

You could just stop the wars... Victor_c3 Feb 2013 #5

Thanks for sharing Ash_F Feb 2013 #9

+1 docgee Feb 2013 #11

Thank your for your service, anyway. bemildred Feb 2013 #14

Family life and relationships are continually strained or broken apart TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #12

What's that? You say morale sucks? How could that happen? bemildred Feb 2013 #13