The act of killing in combat is associated with heightened risks of PTSD and suicide. A scholar interviewed 30 veterans about their common experiences.
Other soldiers and vets essentially look down on you in some ways if you didn’t kill. Thankfully I never was in combat so I didn’t have to be put in that situation, even though I had a combat job. It’s so fucked.
Other soldiers and vets essentially look down on you in some ways if you didn’t kill. Thankfully I never was in combat so I didn’t have to be put in that situation, even though I had a combat job. It’s so fucked.
This problem was exacerbated greatly with ‘awards’ like the Combat Action Badge, if you didn’t have a CAB then you may as well been a fobbit.
Towards the end of the deployment, NCO’s in my unit would more frequently exit the armored vehicles and draw their weapons on whatever