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发帖数: 1 | 1 "I'm a current Army medic but am about 6 months out from hitting my 20 year
retirement. The amount of friends that were killed over our two deployments
to Afghanistan is in the double digits, and probably 3 times that for the
ones that killed themselves, died from drug over doses or ended up addicted
to drugs or alcohol after the fact, it's been rough. Both deployments were
with the infantry, the first one as the medic to our Battalion Commander, so
I was able to gain some insight in to the strategic level of things, not
just the tactical. My second time around, same unit, I was the medic for the
advisor team attached to us, and we operated in western Kandahar, right on
the border with Helmand. We were there to train and advise the district
police and security, go on patrols and all that with them, but like I had
learned from the first deployment it was completely pointless. Dudes just
wanted to collect a check and smoke weed all day. It is what it is I guess,
but even knowing what was coming, it's still hard to watch. I'm not going to
go in to Counter-Insurgency vs. Counter-Terror and all that, there's no
point, but I highly suspect that we and others will be back there in force
in a number of years after some group operating there blows something up and
kills a massive amount of people." |
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