“This guy was in our military?”
This guy did not see any real combat while serving in the US military between 2010 and 2017. Not everybody deployed to Afghanistan experiences real combat.
“but have you ever seen anything so horrible and heartbreaking that you can’t continue? It was like that for me,” he said.”
The US military is well equipped and fights in large numbers. I imagine fighting in Ukraine not well equip and out number is living hell. I understand him, I will not judge him.
You do not know how you will react until you experience it.
The guy walked 6.5 hours in from the east side of Ukraine. There are no Russian engagements there, and he saw so much he had to come back?
They guy would have been fortunate to walk 20 miles in. Likely, he stopped to eat five times, take a dump against a tree, urinate four times, and took a nap, making his walk into the interior of Ukraine about 3 miles before turning around.
Yes, I will insult the man, gladly.
And conversely, those who saw real combat, killed enemy and saw their friends killed or maimed, are among the last people who want to go fight for another country. Those few that do are very well paid. Ukraine wants volunteers. I suspect those expats returning to Ukraine to fight where their parents, uncles, cousins, etc still live, are not running away.