.. This is just from the experience.
Day after day soldiers witness death, lose of friends, close encounter with their own death and brutality beyond many of your imagination, only to encounter the same the next day or within the next second. They live with it day and night, it gets easy and unemotional ….. just a job, duty and mission.
“Killing teams” .. “Baby killer”is just a name to sell the article and to make drama more intense. To vivify those that do what many refuse to grasp. This are soldiers men and women who are our neighbors, friends and relative doing a job ..called “War”. Where the reporting of the other side those horrendous actions of rape, murder and forced bomb vest on handicap children and pregnant women? Difficult to document and photo those events of wrong in time of War.
War is that where people on all side die, where killing is the part of the equation and death of citizen are collateral damage. This the same war where the enemy beheaded, hanged and burned American bodies on bridges, in allies and basements for TV media views pleasure. Where reporters are killed, social worker murdered and civilian contractor plead for their lives only to be forgotten by the events of the next days horror.
War has no boundary of a soldier’s behavior they become emotionally detached, unless you smelled the decay of death, burning of bullet wound flesh and the sounds of dyeing you can’t be judge of their actions.
Limitation on actions of combat soldiers does not prevent nor stop what seem to be grossly wrong on the youtube, primetime and printed media photos. It magnifies the potential of wrong and increases the backlash of being a soldier. It gets easy to be (quote) “Killing Team” taking photos, video and cell phones pics …trophy, reminders, documentation ….. why? I don’t know but it does happen I can attest to this
http://www.psywarrior.com/DeathCardsAce.html I’m not defending their action but unless you been there that very second that the first crack of a AK47 you will never know what happens in the minds and the event that moment in the life of a American Soldier your neighbor, co-worker, friend and relative ….. While you sleep in comfort with the insurance of our military, that American soldier rest for only a few minutes with blood from yesterday.
Blame the grunt it’s easy, video, photo and pics all tell the story of wrong …. blemish others soldiers good deeds and provides fuel for the weak…
I stand solid with these guys in support … not for what they did but for who they are “American Soldiers”…….
…..There are no winners in WAR only survivors, victims and death….
