anecdotally, what I had seen was, that combat vets volunteered to go back into the soup because they couldn’t stand the mundane routine of everyday stateside military life.
-—combat vets volunteered to go back: Yup, that happens with highly motivated guys. But they still need to be paced. The biggest mistake in the current system is rotating individual guys instead of units. WW II, Guadalcanal, John Basilone, might be a poster child for pulling individual guys who out perform. He eventually rejoined his old unit and was killed on Iwo Jima. I just think we could do a better job pacing these guys, keeping them in touch with a group of some sort, and minimizing the high tension times. I have books about guys who were allowed to keep going back until something went sideways.
anecdotally, what I had seen was, that combat vets volunteered to go back into the soup because they couldn’t stand the mundane routine of everyday stateside military life.
Even in peacetime the move from 180m,ph to 75 mph is difficult - my lucky experience post gulf war... when its 400 to 75 i couldnt imagine.