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Originally Posted by Blood_splat
I'm not surprised look at the gangs that were forming in our military.
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That i'm sure is part of it.
Or rather.. Gang members that are joining the military. The Army is taking people they never would have previously because of the need for more boots on the ground. That includes people who would have previously been scored too low on their ASVAB for even the army, and those with gang affiliations. Suffice to say, some of the worst elements in our society can be/are enlisting.
Then they take that training and go back to the streets with it. There was some special on it some time ago on National geographic i think. It was pretty disturbing.
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Thought i'd add, that it is easy to lose yourself. You may not think it, but a year can seem like a lifetime. When your in an enviorment doing a job that royally sucks, you live one day at a time, and things from home, seem like a life time ago, and the memory of things "before" being "there", becomes more and more faded. From my own experience, i never saw it ending, even though i counted the days. When my stint was over, i couldn't believe it. I honestly thought i was dreaming, and that i'd wake up on a cott, and still be in some ****ty tent somewhere, smelling that musty ass tent mixed with the smell of diesal, and the hum of generators in the back ground. I was emotionally disconnected, and i disbelieved that "it" was done, i didn't think it would ever end. I couldn't remember when I was born, when xmas was, couldnt remember MANY things.. and I didn't even care.... at all. Things like that just didn't matter to me anymore. I imagine alot of guys go through that. Now toss in someone who already as a propensity for violence..... and well.... there you go.