[jumpy]

I don't doubt for one minute that if you applied the same 'run & gun' mentality of playing Halo to real combat you'd end up very dead very quickly.

I guess the meat of this article is about a soldiers preparedness to pull the trigger on a human being... such things being what they are, most people have a certain 'block' when it comes to the act of ending anothers life- basic training etc aims to prepare a soldier to overcome that boundry imposed by civilised society. As one chap on a discovery documentary about the D-day landings commented- after his first 'kill', he never killed a human being, just uniforms. "If they had round helmets, they were friendly, if they had square helmets, I killed them"
I suppose it's the only way for individuals to come to terms with the responsibility that they know lies firmly on their shoulders that when you kill someone you take away all he's got and all he's ever going to have. Coupled with the fact that if you hesitate at the 'moment of truth' you will be the one who ends up dead.

I guess in the same way if you are useed to shooting virtual bullets at 'ragg-heads' in a computer game, the link to completing the same act in reality is not all that dissimilar.