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As rightly mentioned only after a full enquiry we will know or hopefully know the reason why. The first thing to think about ( and I may be wrong ) is that a soldier is trained to kill, so straight away you are conditioning their brain to think of doing something they might not naturaly want to do in normal life. I would have thought that just having to be on guard and suspicious of everything and everybody was enough to tax most peoples minds without even firing a shot.
Sitting a few miles away unleashing a barrage of firepower will obviously be different to fighting at close quarters and seeing your victim fall. At the time with the adrenaline rush you would not have time to think of your actions, only after when you are alone you will have time to reflect on what you did and what you saw. I would imagine that there are a fair few soldiers that had it hard in civvy life to start with, they may have come from a broken home and no job, they see no way out but to perhaps join up. To start with they may unknown to themselves be mentally on edge.
Dont get me wrong as it obviously does some of them good having to learn new skills to communicate and work as part of a team, however given the number of soldiers out there from all countries every now and again you are going to get an inccident like this one. At the moment it is just the circumstances surrounding it which we have trouble understanding. To some I would imagine the army life is all they know, they eat breath and sleep it. So if someone is diagnosed with post traumatic syndrome or whatever it is called, are they dismissed from their line of duty, helped to recover and given a desk job :shrug: Or given help to sort it all out and then put back on duty again? Does anybody have any experience of the process used to determine a soldiers state of mind in between each tour of duty then?
Sitting a few miles away unleashing a barrage of firepower will obviously be different to fighting at close quarters and seeing your victim fall. At the time with the adrenaline rush you would not have time to think of your actions, only after when you are alone you will have time to reflect on what you did and what you saw. I would imagine that there are a fair few soldiers that had it hard in civvy life to start with, they may have come from a broken home and no job, they see no way out but to perhaps join up. To start with they may unknown to themselves be mentally on edge.
Dont get me wrong as it obviously does some of them good having to learn new skills to communicate and work as part of a team, however given the number of soldiers out there from all countries every now and again you are going to get an inccident like this one. At the moment it is just the circumstances surrounding it which we have trouble understanding. To some I would imagine the army life is all they know, they eat breath and sleep it. So if someone is diagnosed with post traumatic syndrome or whatever it is called, are they dismissed from their line of duty, helped to recover and given a desk job :shrug: Or given help to sort it all out and then put back on duty again? Does anybody have any experience of the process used to determine a soldiers state of mind in between each tour of duty then?