Post by woodyz on Oct 23, 2015 21:09:35 GMT -7
In the video (first link) this guy rambles on and beats around the bush but eventually gets to a very important point
I have talked some about it before, but the last 1/4 of his "speech" does a pretty good job.
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It may sound crazy but many troops who return home after a combat tour find themselves missing war.
And it’s not the heat, boredom, mortars, IEDs, lack of running water or anything else associated with roughing it that they miss — they can do that on a camping trip. In this clip, war correspondent Sebastian Junger nails the reason why.
www.wearethemighty.com/intel/sebastian-junger-war-reasons
www.wearethemighty.com/intel/sebastian-junger-journalist-becoming-a-man
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My "issues" have always been about letting my team, my people, down
failing them in a moment of weakness when my survival became more important to me than theirs
they depended on me and I failed them and they died because of it
So, I had this "brotherhood" with my team and I lost it
Then I went through my "crazy/dark" whatever period, until I got wounded for the second time and came home
"home" was a big mental shock, I no longer knew how to act, who to trust, what to do
if I had not got assigned to Presidential Security and had a new team with a new clear objective
I don't know what would have happened
I suspect I would have gone dark again
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I don't know what % of our military actually face combat, its a surprisingly small number compared to total count and it tends to be the same group over and over (which is another bitch I have)
but if they could somehow put/keep those combat veterans into a team, with clear objectives with a gradual decline in danger and dependency
I wonder if they wouldn't have less "problems" coping with the experience
just a thought
I have talked some about it before, but the last 1/4 of his "speech" does a pretty good job.
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It may sound crazy but many troops who return home after a combat tour find themselves missing war.
And it’s not the heat, boredom, mortars, IEDs, lack of running water or anything else associated with roughing it that they miss — they can do that on a camping trip. In this clip, war correspondent Sebastian Junger nails the reason why.
www.wearethemighty.com/intel/sebastian-junger-war-reasons
www.wearethemighty.com/intel/sebastian-junger-journalist-becoming-a-man
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My "issues" have always been about letting my team, my people, down
failing them in a moment of weakness when my survival became more important to me than theirs
they depended on me and I failed them and they died because of it
So, I had this "brotherhood" with my team and I lost it
Then I went through my "crazy/dark" whatever period, until I got wounded for the second time and came home
"home" was a big mental shock, I no longer knew how to act, who to trust, what to do
if I had not got assigned to Presidential Security and had a new team with a new clear objective
I don't know what would have happened
I suspect I would have gone dark again
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I don't know what % of our military actually face combat, its a surprisingly small number compared to total count and it tends to be the same group over and over (which is another bitch I have)
but if they could somehow put/keep those combat veterans into a team, with clear objectives with a gradual decline in danger and dependency
I wonder if they wouldn't have less "problems" coping with the experience
just a thought