My ideal military strikes again!

[VinceZeb]

I'm not trying to downplay her bravery, Vince. I'm simply saying that the army is built on teamwork and that, while her actions are uncommonly brave, to say the least, that is not exactly a typical situation. In other words, you're taking her actions of context and try to draw some dopey "blood and guts" picture which glorifies violence from an example of a girl that was more than likely scared shitless as anyone would be. You dehumanizing her. If anything, the fact that she was scared shitless and STILL did these things makes her more of a hero in my eyes.

Of course this isn't common place. I am grateful that our military is so great that it isn't. The only reason I take her actions out of context is because I am doing it for a selfish reason. I am doing it because I want to get under Max's skin. In Max's army, she would have surrendered. But the way I have been told and the way I believe it is that at that percise moment that she needed to kill or be killed, she did not wig out. She did not fault. She did not give up. That is great and something that I wish I could be able to do, but I can not say I would do in the same situation.

Man, you're projecting Hollywood all over this example RIGHT FRIGGIN NOW. That's what makes me think Hollywood affects your thinking.

If Hollywood affected my thinking, I would be a liberal. Thus, I am not.

Because you can't even deal with THIS reality.

I love the general assumption that you don't believe that I can deal with THIS reality. Trust me, I have a nice frim grasp on the world around me. I want to and have had to.

There's a lot of "woulds" in there. Since I haven't had the opportunity to hear why you "can't", care to enlighten me? I could and I did..

Already said why I can not. A few reasons I have stated time and time again and some I don't feel the need to state. And I congradulate you on your service. Thank you for helping to keep this county free and safe.

What do you want to know? That many soldiers receive only rudimentary combat training because their jobs aren't combat arms. That those soldiers that are the most "gung ho" are the ones that often "freeze up". That what PFC Lynch faced is likely something someone of her training is usually unlikely to face ... that she was probably scared shitless ... that she probably reacted better than some that ARE trained in that area of combat which makes her even MORE special ... that's the reality I KNOW ... and that's why I can empathize with her more than you can with your "Rambo" dreams so just STFU about something of which you know nothing.

So, I should STFU because I am only relaying my own experiences with using weapons, talking and listening to my family who served in the military in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and GWI? I shouldn't listen to my co-workers who were in the military and in combat? I shouldnt talk even thought I have had experiences with using weapons to defend myself? I guess I should just not talk about what I have experienced, seen and heard. I have never been in combat, but I know about protecting myself. Sorry if that upsets you about my "Hollywood" influenced life, but the truth is truth.