I served in Iraq in 2006. For the first five months I was on a 12 man firebase out in the middle of nowhere in the desert.
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The stress of being out there and doing the same job every single day eats away at you. The younger guys had problems with that overtime.
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Any tiny little personal issue they had suddenly became a mountain. And that shit came out on that fire base. And they snapped mentally.
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After stepping on each other's nuts living in the same can for five months, guys were at each other's throats. The stress made it worse.
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Guys would literally snap over a dear John letter. Their personal issues came out and they were instantly combat ineffective.
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Now take someone confused about whether they are a man/woman. Take those psychological and emotional issues and put them in that environment
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Take someone who is right off the bat not uniform or part of the same team. Give them special treatment because of their identity.
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Take that person, put them in that stressful war environment and watch what happens. It's a fucking ticking time bomb.
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You have to be incredibly tough mentally, physically and emotionally. War is not a fucking video game. It tests every ounce of your being.
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You can't teach someone to be a fearless warrior in a fucking PowerPoint. You either have it or you don't. You can hack it or you can't.
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We had guys who couldn't. When faced with combat situations they crumbled. They had mental and emotional issues. They were a liability.
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To be successful at war, you have to become a warrior mentally, physically, and emotionally. You can't fake it and go through the motions.
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In war if it comes down to kill or be killed, and you hesitate, you're dead. It's a simple as that. It's not a fucking video game.
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War is no place for people who are mentally, emotionally, or physically confused or in turmoil. You have your shit together, or you don't.
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And if you don't, you'll just get people needlessly killed. Political correctness has absolutely no place in the military.
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Enough for now. This one armed veteran has a business to run. Unlike Iran, the country that took my arm, Obama didn't pay me millions.
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Happy I found your tweets going to show my son who wants to join
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Ps nothing to do with the gender issue just the reality of what it is like to be a solider
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RIP CPL Anzack KIA in Iraq https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2007_abduction_of_U.S._soldiers_in_Iraq … , rough times...pic.twitter.com/ZE6NnBCVdv
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No sleep
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Thank you for telling the truth, and nothing but the truth.
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