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The ability to remotely kill and then go home to your family has to make the impact on operators (the ones with a conscience) so much worse. The buffer time o
by RankingMember 11y ago
The ability to remotely kill and then go home to your family has to make the impact on operators (the ones with a conscience) so much worse.
The buffer time of a flight back from a real deployment, however short, at least seems like it'd provide some time for reflection/rationalization/compartmentalization.
The fact that these operators get shit on by their associates for being out of harm's way and expressing reservations about their mission can't be helping either.
- pavement 11y agoWe found out in the 1970's that flying home from Viet Nam was still too fast and still too much of an abrupt culture shock for many returning soldiers. Long slow boat rides and a quiet, personal welcome home seem to have the most success in easing people back to normal. That is, of course, as long as the theater/front wasn't actually IN the country you also happened to live in and call home. Small detail easily forgotten.