[BeAllYouCanBe]

Staff Sgt Gilliland, whose motto is "Move fast, shoot straight and leave the rest to the counsellors in 10 years" and signs off his e-mails with "silent souls make.308 holes".

Not to get too cynical here but that this SSG says this makes me wonder if we are implanting too many seeds of "self-doubt". I think there has been too many HollyWierd movies about vets going crazy when they get home.

I'm sure that the bad guys aren't worring about having "post traumatic shock syndrome" doing their job.

[Godebert]

I think there has been too many HollyWierd movies about vets going crazy when they get home. I'm sure that the bad guys aren't worring about having "post traumatic shock syndrome" doing their job.

I agree. There are something like 400,000 veterans currently receiving disability payments for "Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome" at a cost of over four billion dollars to the tax payers. The number of veterans applying for this has quadrupled in the last few years. I don't mean to denigrate anyone's service.....but I don't recall anyone from my father's generation belly-aching to the point where they were unable to hold a job.

[Ole Okie]

I think there has been too many HollyWierd movies about vets going crazy when they get home.

Not new. In 1937 I saw a movie called "They Gave Him a Gun" starring Spencer Tracy and Franchot Tone. Two World War 1 soldiers had distinctly different reactions to their weaponry after discharge, with one shootin' up the place.

I was young but recognized propaganda when I saw it. Besides that, everyone I knew in Southwest Oklahoma had pistols or rifles and knew how to use them.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

I'm sure that the bad guys aren't worring about having "post traumatic shock syndrome" doing their job.

Given that the bad guys are uncivilized, cowardly illegal combatants steeped in the psychopathologies of either Islamofascism or Marxism, I agree.

[caveat emptor]

I'm sure that the bad guys aren't worring about having "post traumatic shock syndrome" doing their job.

I'm sure you're right. Under certain conditions there can be PTSS, my dad included. He was a tank commander for 3 years in WWII - North Africa, Normandy, Battle of the Bulge and on to Berlin. Lost lots of tanks and friends. Doubt he worried about the Krauts, though.

But killing a terrorist in Iraq? Ha.