God help us if we ever go to war.

[Stephanie]

For most it is.
These people are normal sociable people who join peacetime armies as a job.
Not the psycho/sociopath types who don't care about other people suffering .
Many of the National Guard in the US are young people doing a job because of scarcity of other work or trying to get money to fund college.
They would never have expected deployment to war zones in a previous generation.
To any of the blowhards here saying 20 year olds should have no problem with dead bodies or drowned people , how many dead bodies or how much blood have you seen, human or ,animal?

No such thing in this new world !

Them young kids should give it more thought before signing on the dotted line .

It's absolutely heartbreaking to see the ones dying , and equally heartbreaking to see the ones forced to stand by

and know they will be affected for the rest of their lives by what they're seen.

: and not only them , but their families being affected in turn --> you're looking at 2 , 3 , 4 people's lives being

tragically impacted for every single 'soldier' who's a party to such events.

That said , in US recruiting practices have come under scrutiny in past few years : recruiters having 'goal numbers'

to meet , not meeting 'goals' carrying negative impact , high high high suicide rate amongst recruiters.



Wish I could link it : War , what is it Good For !??