Hello Pontificator
I am 45 years old and served from 88-91 during desert storm. I saw many stupid things during my time in service but as for training and being part of a unit that trains and prepares year around compared to a weekend a month there are no comparisons. Every person deals with stress, fatigue and orders in their on unique way. Remember orders come from the top in these situations and the person making note of the behavior of the man was not privy to these orders. I remember the night before we went into war moving up through Iraq, missiles were being delivered across the line all night long as I did not sleep nor did the rest of the battalion. The next morning I heard a gun shot just on the other side of the camp and later was told a young solder from a guards unit attached to us decide to shoot himself in the foot to get out of duty. We can go back and forth on this all day long, but as a statistic the weekend warrior is just that only one weekend a month.
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