They were rare bordering on apocryphal during the Draft days of Vietnam. In modern days, all these idiots and assholes are volunteering to be there.
Far more often, you’ve got people in the trenches who aren’t natural born killers and balk at pulling the trigger on anyone. It’s a reflex military training is designed to force out of you.
One of the things Hegseth’s obsession with War Fighters and Testosterone and steriods is intended to “fix”. He doesn’t want an army full of medics and engineers and mechanics and accountants. He wants a bunch of macho gun totting trigger pullers who go frothing berserk mode when the shooting starts.
I wouldn’t hold my breath.
They were rare bordering on apocryphal during the Draft days of Vietnam. In modern days, all these idiots and assholes are volunteering to be there.
Far more often, you’ve got people in the trenches who aren’t natural born killers and balk at pulling the trigger on anyone. It’s a reflex military training is designed to force out of you.
One of the things Hegseth’s obsession with War Fighters and Testosterone and steriods is intended to “fix”. He doesn’t want an army full of medics and engineers and mechanics and accountants. He wants a bunch of macho gun totting trigger pullers who go frothing berserk mode when the shooting starts.
The tactical term for such units is ‘cannon fodder’