I’m a combat veteran and this has been my experience. The guy we put on full-time kitchen duty because we didn’t trust him with a weapon was the loudest braggart around civilians.
Some psychopaths end up loving it. There are the rare nutcases.
This dude would tell me his stories about the military and how he would randomly run into this other dude who would start talking about dead bodies, just very little respect for the dead, joke about people he killed. Maybe it was a coping mechanism, maybe he was a psychopath?
It reminds me of that scene in full metal jacket where they run into the guys who kept a dead vietnamese guy around, put a hat on him and joked about him.
Yeah… For the most part, the ones who’ve actually been in the shit tend to be real quiet about it, not really wanting to talk about it even if asked directly.
The ones who will talk your ear off about their feats of badassery … always turns out that they’re somebody who flunked out of basic training, or somebody who spent 4 years shipping boxes back and forth in supply.
I just remember all of those ww2 veterans that never said a word, even to their families. I have so much respect for those men for managing to shove something like that down and continuing to care for their families. I don’t think I could do that if I’d seen what they saw.
Everyone I know who acts alpha about being in the military are the ones who never actually got deployed.
I’m a combat veteran and this has been my experience. The guy we put on full-time kitchen duty because we didn’t trust him with a weapon was the loudest braggart around civilians.
Some psychopaths end up loving it. There are the rare nutcases.
This dude would tell me his stories about the military and how he would randomly run into this other dude who would start talking about dead bodies, just very little respect for the dead, joke about people he killed. Maybe it was a coping mechanism, maybe he was a psychopath?
It reminds me of that scene in full metal jacket where they run into the guys who kept a dead vietnamese guy around, put a hat on him and joked about him.
Yeah… For the most part, the ones who’ve actually been in the shit tend to be real quiet about it, not really wanting to talk about it even if asked directly.
The ones who will talk your ear off about their feats of badassery … always turns out that they’re somebody who flunked out of basic training, or somebody who spent 4 years shipping boxes back and forth in supply.
I just remember all of those ww2 veterans that never said a word, even to their families. I have so much respect for those men for managing to shove something like that down and continuing to care for their families. I don’t think I could do that if I’d seen what they saw.