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To: DEPcom
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.

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.

26 posted on 03/22/2022 11:09:48 AM PDT by ETCM
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To: ETCM

“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”

Very true. The ones who have not, will think they can handle it. It is not normal to kill people. Sad the guy is learning the hard way. I understand his point of view. He is lucky he can walk off the battlefield.


37 posted on 03/22/2022 12:02:32 PM PDT by DEPcom (Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules)
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