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Originally Posted by gacook
As to the bolded part...please realize that it's a job that SOMEBODY has to do, and unfortunately, many thousands of people must do this job.
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Maybe if there were less people available for the job, it wouldn't be as attractive to use them? Or that the ones who actually *do* do the job will have more value, during and after?
Seeing your pal, the guy you eat and sleep and work with on a daily basis essentially cut in half by an RPG? I would like to think that this would be necessary only in the most extreme of cases. Or seeing your sergeant lose his arm at the elbow from a 12.7mm machine gun round? And I don't even want to think about some of the other stuff, much less write it down. My brother was a Navy man, and he had his share of duty that exposed him to the grimness of service life. Like when a guy got a Dear John letter from home, went to the hangar deck, climbed into an aircraft, then activated the ejection seat. Being on that clean-up crew still bugs my brother, thirty years later.
No, I want folks to think REALLY carefully about being an 11Bravo. As it stands right now, I think the cost is too high. Maybe in the future, the costs will be less. Then I might revisit my opinion on the subject.